[PATCH V4 2/4] PHYLIB: queue work on unbound wq

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Sun Mar 31 2013 - 10:32:31 EST


Phylib 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 system_wq with system_unbound_wq for PHYLIB.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index c14f147..b2fe180 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ void phy_start_machine(struct phy_device *phydev,
{
phydev->adjust_state = handler;

- schedule_delayed_work(&phydev->state_queue, HZ);
+ queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->state_queue, HZ);
}

/**
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static irqreturn_t phy_interrupt(int irq, void *phy_dat)
disable_irq_nosync(irq);
atomic_inc(&phydev->irq_disable);

- schedule_work(&phydev->phy_queue);
+ queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->phy_queue);

return IRQ_HANDLED;
}
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static void phy_change(struct work_struct *work)

/* reschedule state queue work to run as soon as possible */
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&phydev->state_queue);
- schedule_delayed_work(&phydev->state_queue, 0);
+ queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->state_queue, 0);

return;

@@ -918,7 +918,8 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struct *work)
if (err < 0)
phy_error(phydev);

- schedule_delayed_work(&phydev->state_queue, PHY_STATE_TIME * HZ);
+ queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &phydev->state_queue,
+ PHY_STATE_TIME * HZ);
}

static inline void mmd_phy_indirect(struct mii_bus *bus, int prtad, int devad,
--
1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e

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