Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758366Ab3DXLqp (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:46:45 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:48019 "EHLO mail-pd0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758345Ab3DXLqm (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:46:42 -0400 From: Viresh Kumar To: tj@kernel.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net, airlied@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robin.randhawa@arm.com, Steve.Bannister@arm.com, Liviu.Dudau@arm.com, charles.garcia-tobin@arm.com, arvind.chauhan@arm.com, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, Viresh Kumar Subject: [PATCH V5 2/5] workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:12:54 +0530 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3109 Lines: 73 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'. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 7 +++++++ kernel/workqueue.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index 83fa570..ac3e0e29 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -336,11 +336,18 @@ enum { * * system_freezable_wq is equivalent to system_wq except that it's * freezable. + * + * *_power_efficient_wq are inclined towards saving power. They are converted + * into WQ_UNBOUND variants, if 'wq_power_efficient' is set to 'true'. Otherwise + * they are same as their sibling types. Like: system_power_efficient_wq will + * behave like system_wq if 'wq_power_efficient' is not set to 'true'. */ 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 a327027..cb1c2cc 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -313,6 +313,10 @@ 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, @@ -4985,8 +4989,15 @@ 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); -- 1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/