Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757952Ab3ENR4t (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 13:56:49 -0400 Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:40791 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754057Ab3ENR4s (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 13:56:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:56:40 -0700 From: Tejun Heo To: Viresh Kumar 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 2/5] workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues Message-ID: <20130514175640.GI6795@mtj.dyndns.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3485 Lines: 84 This one is slightly updated too. The rest remain the same. >From 0668106ca3865ba945e155097fb042bf66d364d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Viresh Kumar Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:12:54 +0530 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 8 ++++++++ kernel/workqueue.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index fc0136b..a9f4119 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 8068d97..16ca2d3 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, @@ -4987,8 +4991,15 @@ 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); -- 1.8.1.4 -- 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/