sched: Remove WAKEUP_SYNC feature

This feature never earned its keep, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301591.6785.42.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 97682f925ed5..1d99535b0928 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -1658,7 +1658,6 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_
         struct task_struct *curr = rq->curr;
         struct sched_entity *se = &curr->se, *pse = &p->se;
         struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq = task_cfs_rq(curr);
-        int sync = wake_flags & WF_SYNC;
         int scale = cfs_rq->nr_running >= sched_nr_latency;
 
         if (unlikely(rt_prio(p->prio)))
@@ -1691,9 +1690,6 @@ static void check_preempt_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_
         if (unlikely(curr->policy == SCHED_IDLE))
                 goto preempt;
 
-        if (sched_feat(WAKEUP_SYNC) && sync)
-                goto preempt;
-
         if (!sched_feat(WAKEUP_PREEMPT))
                 return;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched_features.h b/kernel/sched_features.h
index 850f9809cf81..1cb7c4701bf3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_PREEMPT, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_GRAN, 1)
 
 /*
- * Always wakeup-preempt SYNC wakeups, see SYNC_WAKEUPS.
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_SYNC, 0)
-
-/*
  * Use the SYNC wakeup hint, pipes and the likes use this to indicate
  * the remote end is likely to consume the data we just wrote, and
  * therefore has cache benefit from being placed on the same cpu, see