sched/numa: Drop sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl

commit 887c290e (sched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights
based on swap candidate relationships) drop the check against
sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count, this patch remove the sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386833006-6600-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index a9185f7c9446..fcb6c17f7d79 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -872,15 +872,6 @@ static unsigned int task_scan_max(struct task_struct *p)
         return max(smin, smax);
 }
 
-/*
- * Once a preferred node is selected the scheduler balancer will prefer moving
- * a task to that node for sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count number of PTE
- * scans. This will give the process the chance to accumulate more faults on
- * the preferred node but still allow the scheduler to move the task again if
- * the nodes CPUs are overloaded.
- */
-unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count __read_mostly = 4;
-
 static void account_numa_enqueue(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 {
         rq->nr_numa_running += (p->numa_preferred_nid != -1);
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 34a604726d0b..c8da99f905cf 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -385,13 +385,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                 .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
         },
         {
-                .procname       = "numa_balancing_settle_count",
-                .data           = &sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count,
-                .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
-                .mode           = 0644,
-                .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
-        },
-        {
                 .procname       = "numa_balancing_migrate_deferred",
                 .data           = &sysctl_numa_balancing_migrate_deferred,
                 .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),