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>
This commit is contained in:
Viresh Kumar 2013-04-24 17:12:54 +05:30 committed by syphyr
parent df8a9d39e7
commit 407b158b99
2 changed files with 20 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -362,11 +362,19 @@ 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)
{

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@ -322,6 +322,10 @@ 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,
@ -5162,8 +5166,15 @@ 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);