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| author | Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> | 2013-04-08 16:45:40 +0530 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2013-05-14 10:50:06 -0700 |
| commit | cee22a15052faa817e3ec8985a28154d3fabc7aa (patch) | |
| tree | 506028de7bd3bf7de08a7933b5601355f27c5262 /kernel/workqueue.c | |
| parent | f722406faae2d073cc1d01063d1123c35425939e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-cee22a15052faa817e3ec8985a28154d3fabc7aa.tar.gz lwn-cee22a15052faa817e3ec8985a28154d3fabc7aa.zip | |
workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
core that is already awake.
Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system. To enable
power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.
tj: Updated config description and comments. Renamed
CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT to CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 4aa9f5bc6b2d..8068d97ce141 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -272,6 +272,15 @@ static cpumask_var_t *wq_numa_possible_cpumask; static bool wq_disable_numa; module_param_named(disable_numa, wq_disable_numa, bool, 0444); +/* see the comment above the definition of WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT */ +#ifdef CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT +static bool wq_power_efficient = true; +#else +static bool wq_power_efficient; +#endif + +module_param_named(power_efficient, wq_power_efficient, bool, 0444); + static bool wq_numa_enabled; /* unbound NUMA affinity enabled */ /* buf for wq_update_unbound_numa_attrs(), protected by CPU hotplug exclusion */ @@ -4085,6 +4094,10 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, struct workqueue_struct *wq; struct pool_workqueue *pwq; + /* see the comment above the definition of WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT */ + if ((flags & WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT) && wq_power_efficient) + flags |= WQ_UNBOUND; + /* allocate wq and format name */ if (flags & WQ_UNBOUND) tbl_size = wq_numa_tbl_len * sizeof(wq->numa_pwq_tbl[0]); |