On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:04:03PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> The function get_loadavg() returns almost always zero. To be more
> precise, statistically speaking for a total of 1023379 times passing
> in the function, the load is equal to zero 1020728 times, greater than
> 100, 610 times, the remaining is between 0 and 5.
>
> In 2011, the get_loadavg() was removed from the Android tree because
> of the above [1]. At this time, the load was:
>
> unsigned long this_cpu_load(void)
> {
> struct rq *this = this_rq();
> return this->cpu_load[0];
> }
>
> In 2014, the code was changed by commit 372ba8cb46b2 (cpuidle: menu: Lookup
> CPU
> runqueues less) and the load is:
>
> void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load)
> {
> struct rq *rq = this_rq();
> *nr_waiters = atomic_read(&rq->nr_iowait);
> *load = rq->load.weight;
> }
>
> with the same result.
>
> Both measurements show using the load in this code path does no matter
> anymore. Removing it.
>
> [1]
> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/4dedd9f124703207895777ac6e91dacde0f7cc17
>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <[email protected]>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
> Cc: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ramesh Thomas <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
