From patchwork Tue Dec 17 21:56:49 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Mark Brown X-Patchwork-Id: 3366311 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-linux-fbdev@patchwork.kernel.org Delivered-To: patchwork-parsemail@patchwork2.web.kernel.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.19.201]) by patchwork2.web.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7CDC0D4B for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68735203AE for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:57:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1B1203AC for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:57:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754119Ab3LQV5Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:57:24 -0500 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:51424 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754115Ab3LQV5X (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 16:57:23 -0500 Received: from cpc11-sgyl31-2-0-cust68.sgyl.cable.virginm.net ([94.175.92.69] helo=debutante.sirena.org.uk) by cassiel.sirena.org.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Vt2dM-00062o-95; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:57:05 +0000 Received: from broonie by debutante.sirena.org.uk with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Vt2dL-0005nv-8j; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:56:55 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org Cc: Viresh Kumar , Dave Airlie , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:56:49 +0000 Message-Id: <1387317415-22252-5-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.5.1 In-Reply-To: <1387317415-22252-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> References: <20131217215601.GI28455@sirena.org.uk> <1387317415-22252-1-git-send-email-broonie@kernel.org> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.92.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail.kernel.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Subject: [PATCH 05/11] fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-fbdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Viresh Kumar fbcon uses workqueues and it has 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_power_efficient_wq. Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo (cherry picked from commit a85f1a41f020bc2c97611060bcfae6f48a1db28d) Signed-off-by: Mark Brown --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c index a92783e480e6..0d8f98c79a6c 100644 --- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static void cursor_timer_handler(unsigned long dev_addr) struct fb_info *info = (struct fb_info *) dev_addr; struct fbcon_ops *ops = info->fbcon_par; - schedule_work(&info->queue); + queue_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &info->queue); mod_timer(&ops->cursor_timer, jiffies + HZ/5); }