rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine

The NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE full-system-idle capability was added in 2013
by commit 0edd1b1784cb ("nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine"),
but has not been used.  This commit therefore removes it.

If it turns out to be needed later, this commit can always be reverted.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 50 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig
index 4008d9f95dd7..ac09bc29eb08 100644
--- a/kernel/time/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig
@@ -126,56 +126,6 @@ config NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
 	 Note the boot CPU will still be kept outside the range to
 	 handle the timekeeping duty.
 
-config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
-	bool "Detect full-system idle state for full dynticks system"
-	depends on NO_HZ_FULL
-	default n
-	help
-	 At least one CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick running for
-	 timekeeping purposes whenever there is a non-idle CPU, where
-	 "non-idle" also includes dynticks CPUs as long as they are
-	 running non-idle tasks.  Because the underlying adaptive-tick
-	 support cannot distinguish between all CPUs being idle and
-	 all CPUs each running a single task in dynticks mode, the
-	 underlying support simply ensures that there is always a CPU
-	 handling the scheduling-clock tick, whether or not all CPUs
-	 are idle.  This Kconfig option enables scalable detection of
-	 the all-CPUs-idle state, thus allowing the scheduling-clock
-	 tick to be disabled when all CPUs are idle.  Note that scalable
-	 detection of the all-CPUs-idle state means that larger systems
-	 will be slower to declare the all-CPUs-idle state.
-
-	 Say Y if you would like to help debug all-CPUs-idle detection.
-
-	 Say N if you are unsure.
-
-config NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
-	int "Number of CPUs above which large-system approach is used"
-	depends on NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE
-	range 1 NR_CPUS
-	default 8
-	help
-	 The full-system idle detection mechanism takes a lazy approach
-	 on large systems, as is required to attain decent scalability.
-	 However, on smaller systems, scalability is not anywhere near as
-	 large a concern as is energy efficiency.  The sysidle subsystem
-	 therefore uses a fast but non-scalable algorithm for small
-	 systems and a lazier but scalable algorithm for large systems.
-	 This Kconfig parameter defines the number of CPUs in the largest
-	 system that will be considered to be "small".
-
-	 The default value will be fine in most cases.	Battery-powered
-	 systems that (1) enable NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE, (2) have larger
-	 numbers of CPUs, and (3) are suffering from battery-lifetime
-	 problems due to long sysidle latencies might wish to experiment
-	 with larger values for this Kconfig parameter.  On the other
-	 hand, they might be even better served by disabling NO_HZ_FULL
-	 entirely, given that NO_HZ_FULL is intended for HPC and
-	 real-time workloads that at present do not tend to be run on
-	 battery-powered systems.
-
-	 Take the default if you are unsure.
-
 config NO_HZ
 	bool "Old Idle dynticks config"
 	depends on !ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET && GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS