sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now

Norbert reported that nohz_ratelimit() causes his laptop to burn about
4W (40%) extra. For now back out the change and see if we can adjust
the power management code to make better decisions.
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

include/linux/sched.h

@@ -273,17 +273,11 @@ extern cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask;
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ)
 extern int select_nohz_load_balancer(int cpu);
 extern int get_nohz_load_balancer(void);
-extern int nohz_ratelimit(int cpu);
 #else
 static inline int select_nohz_load_balancer(int cpu)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
-
-static inline int nohz_ratelimit(int cpu)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
 #endif
 
 /*

kernel/sched.c

@@ -1232,16 +1232,6 @@ void wake_up_idle_cpu(int cpu)
 		smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
 }
 
-int nohz_ratelimit(int cpu)
-{
-	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
-	u64 diff = rq->clock - rq->nohz_stamp;
-
-	rq->nohz_stamp = rq->clock;
-
-	return diff < (NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ) >> 1;
-}
-
 #endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */
 
 static u64 sched_avg_period(void)

kernel/time/tick-sched.c

@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidle)
 	} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
 
 	if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || printk_needs_cpu(cpu) ||
-	    arch_needs_cpu(cpu) || nohz_ratelimit(cpu)) {
+	    arch_needs_cpu(cpu)) {
 		next_jiffies = last_jiffies + 1;
 		delta_jiffies = 1;
 	} else {