Re: [PATCH] sched/topology: Remove unused numa_distance in cpu_attach_domain()

[Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 9:04 PM Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> wrote:
>
> numa_distance in cpu_attach_domain() is introduced in
> commit b5b217346de8 ("sched/topology: Warn when NUMA diameter > 2")
> to warn user when NUMA diameter > 2 as we'll misrepresent
> the scheduler topology structures at that time. This is
> fixed by Barry in commit 585b6d2723dc ("sched/topology: fix the issue
> groups don't span domain->span for NUMA diameter > 2") and
> numa_distance is unused now. So remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>

looks good to me.

> ---
>  kernel/sched/topology.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> index b77ad49dc14f..ccbb141df8c8 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -688,7 +688,6 @@ cpu_attach_domain(struct sched_domain *sd, struct root_domain *rd, int cpu)
>  {
>         struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
>         struct sched_domain *tmp;
> -       int numa_distance = 0;
>
>         /* Remove the sched domains which do not contribute to scheduling. */
>         for (tmp = sd; tmp; ) {
> @@ -720,9 +719,6 @@ cpu_attach_domain(struct sched_domain *sd, struct root_domain *rd, int cpu)
>                         sd->child = NULL;
>         }
>
> -       for (tmp = sd; tmp; tmp = tmp->parent)
> -               numa_distance += !!(tmp->flags & SD_NUMA);
> -
>         sched_domain_debug(sd, cpu);
>
>         rq_attach_root(rq, rd);
> --
> 2.17.1
>

Thanks
Barry