Re: [PATCH v3 -tip] sched: Clean unused fields from struct rq

From: Gregory Haskins
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 14:41:04 EST


Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:51:37PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
>
>> Since they are used on in statistics and are always set to zero, the following
>> fields from struct rq have been removed: yld_exp_empty, yld_act_empty and
>> yld_both_empty.
>>
>> Both Sched Debug and SCHEDSTAT_VERSION versions has also been incremented since
>> ABIs have been changed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@xxxxxxx>
>>
Acked-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx>

>> ---
>> kernel/sched.c | 3 ---
>> kernel/sched_debug.c | 5 +----
>> kernel/sched_stats.h | 7 +++----
>> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
>> index 8a579e2..4469034 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
>> @@ -646,9 +646,6 @@ struct rq {
>> /* could above be rq->cfs_rq.exec_clock + rq->rt_rq.rt_runtime ? */
>>
>> /* sys_sched_yield() stats */
>> - unsigned int yld_exp_empty;
>> - unsigned int yld_act_empty;
>> - unsigned int yld_both_empty;
>> unsigned int yld_count;
>>
>> /* schedule() stats */
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched_debug.c b/kernel/sched_debug.c
>> index 4daebff..467ca72 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched_debug.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched_debug.c
>> @@ -286,9 +286,6 @@ static void print_cpu(struct seq_file *m, int cpu)
>> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
>> #define P(n) SEQ_printf(m, " .%-30s: %d\n", #n, rq->n);
>>
>> - P(yld_exp_empty);
>> - P(yld_act_empty);
>> - P(yld_both_empty);
>> P(yld_count);
>>
>> P(sched_switch);
>> @@ -313,7 +310,7 @@ static int sched_debug_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>> u64 now = ktime_to_ns(ktime_get());
>> int cpu;
>>
>> - SEQ_printf(m, "Sched Debug Version: v0.08, %s %.*s\n",
>> + SEQ_printf(m, "Sched Debug Version: v0.09, %s %.*s\n",
>> init_utsname()->release,
>> (int)strcspn(init_utsname()->version, " "),
>> init_utsname()->version);
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched_stats.h b/kernel/sched_stats.h
>> index a8f93dd..32d2bd4 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched_stats.h
>> +++ b/kernel/sched_stats.h
>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>> * bump this up when changing the output format or the meaning of an existing
>> * format, so that tools can adapt (or abort)
>> */
>> -#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 14
>> +#define SCHEDSTAT_VERSION 15
>>
>> static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
>> {
>> @@ -26,9 +26,8 @@ static int show_schedstat(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
>>
>> /* runqueue-specific stats */
>> seq_printf(seq,
>> - "cpu%d %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %u %llu %llu %lu",
>> - cpu, rq->yld_both_empty,
>> - rq->yld_act_empty, rq->yld_exp_empty, rq->yld_count,
>> + "cpu%d %u %u %u %u %u %u %llu %llu %lu",
>> + cpu, rq->yld_count,
>> rq->sched_switch, rq->sched_count, rq->sched_goidle,
>> rq->ttwu_count, rq->ttwu_local,
>> rq->rq_cpu_time,
>> --
>> 1.6.2
>>
>
> Btw: I tried Greg schedtop with this patch and the app behaviour is as expected:
>
> $ ./schedtop
> Exception: unsupported version
>
> Regards,
>


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