From 930aa174fcc8b0efaad102fd80f677b92f35eaa2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:29:37 +0100 Subject: sched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctl With scan rate adaptions based on whether the workload has properly converged or not there should be no need for the scan period reset hammer. Get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-60-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/core.c | 1 - kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 +----------------- kernel/sysctl.c | 7 ------- 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 25 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 8cfd51f62241..89c5ae836f66 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1721,7 +1721,6 @@ static void __sched_fork(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *p) #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING if (p->mm && atomic_read(&p->mm->mm_users) == 1) { p->mm->numa_next_scan = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay); - p->mm->numa_next_reset = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_reset); p->mm->numa_scan_seq = 0; } diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 66237ff8b01e..da6fa22be000 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -826,7 +826,6 @@ update_stats_curr_start(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se) */ unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_min = 1000; unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max = 60000; -unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_reset = 60000; /* Portion of address space to scan in MB */ unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size = 256; @@ -1685,24 +1684,9 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work) if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) return; - if (!mm->numa_next_reset || !mm->numa_next_scan) { + if (!mm->numa_next_scan) { mm->numa_next_scan = now + msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay); - mm->numa_next_reset = now + - msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_reset); - } - - /* - * Reset the scan period if enough time has gone by. Objective is that - * scanning will be reduced if pages are properly placed. As tasks - * can enter different phases this needs to be re-examined. Lacking - * proper tracking of reference behaviour, this blunt hammer is used. - */ - migrate = mm->numa_next_reset; - if (time_after(now, migrate)) { - p->numa_scan_period = task_scan_min(p); - next_scan = now + msecs_to_jiffies(sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_reset); - xchg(&mm->numa_next_reset, next_scan); } /* diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 42f616a74f40..e509b90a8002 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -370,13 +370,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, - { - .procname = "numa_balancing_scan_period_reset", - .data = &sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_reset, - .maxlen = sizeof(unsigned int), - .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, - }, { .procname = "numa_balancing_scan_period_max_ms", .data = &sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_period_max, -- cgit v1.2.3-71-gd317