Re: [PATCH V3 3/7] workqueue: Add helpers to schedule work on any cpu

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:40:03AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> So the scheduler does know what it's doing after all, which is a nice
> news.  Given the result, the best thing to do would be somehow marking
> these workqueues as unbound for powersaving?

BTW, recent changes to workqueue means that it shouldn't be too
difficult to create a combined workqueue which distributes work items
to both per-cpu and unbound worker pools depending on cpu_idle(), but,
at least for now, I think we can make do with much coarser approach.
We can refine it afterwards.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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