sched: remove expired_starving()

remove the expired_starving() heuristics from the core scheduler.

CFS does not need it, and this did not really work well in practice
anyway, due to the rq->nr_running multiplier to STARVATION_LIMIT.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 26795ad..8e44da6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -3241,27 +3241,6 @@ unsigned long long task_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *p)
 }
 
 /*
- * We place interactive tasks back into the active array, if possible.
- *
- * To guarantee that this does not starve expired tasks we ignore the
- * interactivity of a task if the first expired task had to wait more
- * than a 'reasonable' amount of time. This deadline timeout is
- * load-dependent, as the frequency of array switched decreases with
- * increasing number of running tasks. We also ignore the interactivity
- * if a better static_prio task has expired:
- */
-static inline int expired_starving(struct rq *rq)
-{
-	if (rq->curr->static_prio > rq->best_expired_prio)
-		return 1;
-	if (!STARVATION_LIMIT || !rq->expired_timestamp)
-		return 0;
-	if (jiffies - rq->expired_timestamp > STARVATION_LIMIT * rq->nr_running)
-		return 1;
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/*
  * Account user cpu time to a process.
  * @p: the process that the cpu time gets accounted to
  * @hardirq_offset: the offset to subtract from hardirq_count()
@@ -3373,7 +3352,7 @@ static void task_running_tick(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p)
 
 		if (!rq->expired_timestamp)
 			rq->expired_timestamp = jiffies;
-		if (!TASK_INTERACTIVE(p) || expired_starving(rq)) {
+		if (!TASK_INTERACTIVE(p)) {
 			enqueue_task(p, rq->expired);
 			if (p->static_prio < rq->best_expired_prio)
 				rq->best_expired_prio = p->static_prio;