This one is slightly updated too. The rest remain the same.
From 0668106ca3865ba945e155097fb042bf66d364d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org 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 viresh.kumar@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org --- 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);