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authorViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>2013-04-24 17:12:54 +0530
committerMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>2013-07-18 14:30:02 +0100
commit7399c448c57c930a065e0ab77870ab84dc0dbf61 (patch)
tree7f7c7f75c651eb5760f1f545be1d1453a0511169
parent61a10f9763d989e6716fe35030951f2ccfca822a (diff)
workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
This patch adds system wide workqueues aligned towards power saving. This is done by allocating them with WQ_UNBOUND flag if 'wq_power_efficient' is set to 'true'. tj: updated comments a bit. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> (cherry picked from commit 0668106ca3865ba945e155097fb042bf66d364d3) Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/workqueue.h8
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c13
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index fc0136b604f..a9f4119c7e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -360,11 +360,19 @@ enum {
*
* system_freezable_wq is equivalent to system_wq except that it's
* freezable.
+ *
+ * *_power_efficient_wq are inclined towards saving power and converted
+ * into WQ_UNBOUND variants if 'wq_power_efficient' is enabled; otherwise,
+ * they are same as their non-power-efficient counterparts - e.g.
+ * system_power_efficient_wq is identical to system_wq if
+ * 'wq_power_efficient' is disabled. See WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for more info.
*/
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_long_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_unbound_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_wq;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *system_power_efficient_wq;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_power_efficient_wq;
static inline struct workqueue_struct * __deprecated __system_nrt_wq(void)
{
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 96cfa73ab9e..f02c4a4a0c3 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -314,6 +314,10 @@ struct workqueue_struct *system_unbound_wq __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(system_unbound_wq);
struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_wq __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(system_freezable_wq);
+struct workqueue_struct *system_power_efficient_wq __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(system_power_efficient_wq);
+struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_power_efficient_wq __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(system_freezable_power_efficient_wq);
static int worker_thread(void *__worker);
static void copy_workqueue_attrs(struct workqueue_attrs *to,
@@ -4998,8 +5002,15 @@ static int __init init_workqueues(void)
WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE);
system_freezable_wq = alloc_workqueue("events_freezable",
WQ_FREEZABLE, 0);
+ system_power_efficient_wq = alloc_workqueue("events_power_efficient",
+ WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT, 0);
+ system_freezable_power_efficient_wq = alloc_workqueue("events_freezable_power_efficient",
+ WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT,
+ 0);
BUG_ON(!system_wq || !system_highpri_wq || !system_long_wq ||
- !system_unbound_wq || !system_freezable_wq);
+ !system_unbound_wq || !system_freezable_wq ||
+ !system_power_efficient_wq ||
+ !system_freezable_power_efficient_wq);
return 0;
}
early_initcall(init_workqueues);