Phylib uses workqueues for multiple purposes. There is no real dependency of scheduling these on the cpu which scheduled them.
On a idle system, it is observed that and idle cpu wakes up many times just to service this work. It would be better if we can schedule it on a cpu which the scheduler believes to be the most appropriate one.
This patch replaces system_wq with system_unbound_wq for PHYLIB.
Cc: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c index c14f147..b2fe180 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ void phy_start_machine(struct phy_device *phydev, { phydev->adjust_state = handler;
- schedule_delayed_work(&phydev->state_queue, HZ); + queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->state_queue, HZ); }
/** @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static irqreturn_t phy_interrupt(int irq, void *phy_dat) disable_irq_nosync(irq); atomic_inc(&phydev->irq_disable);
- schedule_work(&phydev->phy_queue); + queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->phy_queue);
return IRQ_HANDLED; } @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static void phy_change(struct work_struct *work)
/* reschedule state queue work to run as soon as possible */ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phydev->state_queue); - schedule_delayed_work(&phydev->state_queue, 0); + queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->state_queue, 0);
return;
@@ -918,7 +918,8 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struct *work) if (err < 0) phy_error(phydev);
- schedule_delayed_work(&phydev->state_queue, PHY_STATE_TIME * HZ); + queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->state_queue, + PHY_STATE_TIME * HZ); }
static inline void mmd_phy_indirect(struct mii_bus *bus, int prtad, int devad,