sched: Remove avg_overlap

Both avg_overlap and avg_wakeup had an inherent problem in that their accuracy
was detrimentally affected by cross-cpu wakeups, this because we are missing
the necessary call to update_curr().  This can't be fixed without increasing
overhead in our already too fat fastpath.

Additionally, with recent load balancing changes making us prefer to place tasks
in an idle cache domain (which is good for compute bound loads), communicating
tasks suffer when a sync wakeup, which would enable affine placement, is turned
into a non-sync wakeup by SYNC_LESS.  With one task on the runqueue, wake_affine()
rejects the affine wakeup request, leaving the unfortunate where placed, taking
frequent cache misses.

Remove it, and recover some fastpath cycles.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1268301121.6785.30.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched_features.h b/kernel/sched_features.h
index 96ef5dbc66e1..c545e048dfed 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_features.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_features.h
@@ -42,12 +42,6 @@ SCHED_FEAT(ASYM_GRAN, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_SYNC, 0)
 
 /*
- * Wakeup preempt based on task behaviour. Tasks that do not overlap
- * don't get preempted.
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(WAKEUP_OVERLAP, 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
@@ -64,16 +58,6 @@ SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_WAKEUPS, 1)
 SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
 
 /*
- * Weaken SYNC hint based on overlap
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_LESS, 1)
-
-/*
- * Add SYNC hint based on overlap
- */
-SCHED_FEAT(SYNC_MORE, 0)
-
-/*
  * Prefer to schedule the task we woke last (assuming it failed
  * wakeup-preemption), since its likely going to consume data we
  * touched, increases cache locality.