Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: remove dependence on delay-accounting

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Mon Jan 16 2012 - 08:43:03 EST


Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 08:30:51PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
KVM selects delay-accounting only to get sched-info for steal-time accounting.
Meanwhile delay-accounting can be disabled by boot option. This is ridiculous.

This patch adds internal boolean option CONFIG_TASK_SCHED_INFO to enable only
task->sched_info and its collecting inside scheduler.


<cut>

static inline int sched_info_on(void)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM)
return 1;

CONFIG_TASK_SCHED_INFO?


It makes it equal to constant 1, because all its callers are
under #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_SCHED_INFO =)

its current code:

static inline int sched_info_on(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
return 1;
#elif defined(CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT)
extern int delayacct_on;
return delayacct_on;
#else
return 0;
#endif
}

CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS == debug option in lib/Kconfig.debug for /proc/schedstat
CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT == wierd net-link based statistics collecting tool

Thus, may be better to remove this function, because it can return 0
only if delay-accounting is compiled but disabled by boot option
(delayacct_on =1 by default since 2.6.18)

patch follows...

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