sched/numa, mm: Remove p->numa_migrate_deferred

Excessive migration of pages can hurt the performance of workloads
that span multiple NUMA nodes.  However, it turns out that the
p->numa_migrate_deferred knob is a really big hammer, which does
reduce migration rates, but does not actually help performance.

Now that the second stage of the automatic numa balancing code
has stabilized, it is time to replace the simplistic migration
deferral code with something smarter.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index c8da99f905cf..b41d61d95c14 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -384,13 +384,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                 .mode           = 0644,
                 .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
         },
-        {
-                .procname       = "numa_balancing_migrate_deferred",
-                .data           = &sysctl_numa_balancing_migrate_deferred,
-                .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
-                .mode           = 0644,
-                .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
-        },
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
 #endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG */
         {