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[2/2] net/neighbour: queue work on power efficient wq

Message ID faa5b965e81fcb4c3261561e58a8ab1194ecf562.1390373223.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
State New
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Viresh Kumar Jan. 22, 2014, 6:53 a.m. UTC
Workqueue used in neighbour layer have no real dependency of scheduling these on
the cpu which scheduled them.

On a idle system, it is observed that an 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. This
doesn't change existing behavior of code unless CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT is
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---
 net/core/neighbour.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Jan. 23, 2014, 5:58 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:23:33 +0530

> Workqueue used in neighbour layer have no real dependency of scheduling these on
> the cpu which scheduled them.
> 
> On a idle system, it is observed that an 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. This
> doesn't change existing behavior of code unless CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT is
> enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

Applied.
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diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index f8012fe..b9e9e0d 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@  out:
 	 * ARP entry timeouts range from 1/2 BASE_REACHABLE_TIME to 3/2
 	 * BASE_REACHABLE_TIME.
 	 */
-	schedule_delayed_work(&tbl->gc_work,
+	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &tbl->gc_work,
 			      NEIGH_VAR(&tbl->parms, BASE_REACHABLE_TIME) >> 1);
 	write_unlock_bh(&tbl->lock);
 }
@@ -1565,7 +1565,8 @@  static void neigh_table_init_no_netlink(struct neigh_table *tbl)
 
 	rwlock_init(&tbl->lock);
 	INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(&tbl->gc_work, neigh_periodic_work);
-	schedule_delayed_work(&tbl->gc_work, tbl->parms.reachable_time);
+	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &tbl->gc_work,
+			tbl->parms.reachable_time);
 	setup_timer(&tbl->proxy_timer, neigh_proxy_process, (unsigned long)tbl);
 	skb_queue_head_init_class(&tbl->proxy_queue,
 			&neigh_table_proxy_queue_class);