From 695588f9454bdbc7c1a2fbb8a6bfdcfba6183348 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Viresh Kumar Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:12:56 +0530 Subject: block: queue work on power efficient wq Block layer 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 normal workqueues with power efficient versions. Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- block/blk-ioc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'block/blk-ioc.c') diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c index 9c4bb8266bc8..4464c823cff2 100644 --- a/block/blk-ioc.c +++ b/block/blk-ioc.c @@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ void put_io_context(struct io_context *ioc) if (atomic_long_dec_and_test(&ioc->refcount)) { spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->lock, flags); if (!hlist_empty(&ioc->icq_list)) - schedule_work(&ioc->release_work); + queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, + &ioc->release_work); else free_ioc = true; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->lock, flags); -- cgit v1.2.3