sched/fair: Kill the unused 'sched_shares_window_ns' tunable

The last user of this tunable was removed in 2012 in commit:

  82958366cfea ("sched: Replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation")

Delete it since its very existence confuses people.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161019141059.26408-1-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
index 22db1e63707ec26a191dd330548f3e3d125904eb..441145351301bc8b57454cc292cc810caf7b6413 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_nr_migrate;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_time_avg;
-extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_shares_window;
 
 int sched_proc_update_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
                void __user *buffer, size_t *length,

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d941c97dfbc32d1225925cfaf3ec64d2375b5249..79d464a0441737b6530eb3b81a82e6519520f6af 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -93,13 +93,6 @@ unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity = 1000000UL;
 
 const_debug unsigned int sysctl_sched_migration_cost = 500000UL;
 
-/*
- * The exponential sliding  window over which load is averaged for shares
- * distribution.
- * (default: 10msec)
- */
-unsigned int __read_mostly sysctl_sched_shares_window = 10000000UL;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH
 /*
  * Amount of runtime to allocate from global (tg) to local (per-cfs_rq) pool

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 706309f9ed8422dc90a3c4b246608e64d48a04de..739fb17371af149a28c1d59ecde507a94217fe25 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -347,13 +347,6 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
                .mode           = 0644,
                .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
        },
-       {
-               .procname       = "sched_shares_window_ns",
-               .data           = &sysctl_sched_shares_window,
-               .maxlen         = sizeof(unsigned int),
-               .mode           = 0644,
-               .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec,
-       },
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
        {
                .procname       = "sched_schedstats",