[PATCH 03/24] workqueue: Not all work insertion needs to wake up a worker

[Tejun Heo]

insert_work() always tried to wake up a worker; however, the only time it
needs to try to wake up a worker is when a new active work item is queued.
When a work item goes on the inactive list or queueing a flush work item,
there's no reason to try to wake up a worker.

This patch moves the worker wakeup logic out of insert_work() and places it
in the active new work item queueing path in __queue_work().

While at it:

* __queue_work() is dereferencing pwq->pool repeatedly. Add local variable
  pool.

* Every caller of insert_work() calls debug_work_activate(). Consolidate the
  invocations into insert_work().

* In __queue_work() pool->watchdog_ts update is relocated slightly. This is
  to better accommodate future changes.

This makes wakeups more precise and will help the planned change to assign
work items to workers before waking them up. No behavior changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index c1e56ba4a038..0d5eb436d31a 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@ static int try_to_grab_pending(struct work_struct *work, bool is_dwork,
 static void insert_work(struct pool_workqueue *pwq, struct work_struct *work,
 			struct list_head *head, unsigned int extra_flags)
 {
-	struct worker_pool *pool = pwq->pool;
+	debug_work_activate(work);
 
 	/* record the work call stack in order to print it in KASAN reports */
 	kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(work);
@@ -1532,9 +1532,6 @@ static void insert_work(struct pool_workqueue *pwq, struct work_struct *work,
 	set_work_pwq(work, pwq, extra_flags);
 	list_add_tail(&work->entry, head);
 	get_pwq(pwq);
-
-	if (__need_more_worker(pool))
-		wake_up_worker(pool);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1588,8 +1585,7 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 			 struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct pool_workqueue *pwq;
-	struct worker_pool *last_pool;
-	struct list_head *worklist;
+	struct worker_pool *last_pool, *pool;
 	unsigned int work_flags;
 	unsigned int req_cpu = cpu;
 
@@ -1623,13 +1619,15 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 		pwq = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_pwqs, cpu);
 	}
 
+	pool = pwq->pool;
+
 	/*
 	 * If @work was previously on a different pool, it might still be
 	 * running there, in which case the work needs to be queued on that
 	 * pool to guarantee non-reentrancy.
 	 */
 	last_pool = get_work_pool(work);
-	if (last_pool && last_pool != pwq->pool) {
+	if (last_pool && last_pool != pool) {
 		struct worker *worker;
 
 		raw_spin_lock(&last_pool->lock);
@@ -1638,13 +1636,14 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 
 		if (worker && worker->current_pwq->wq == wq) {
 			pwq = worker->current_pwq;
+			pool = pwq->pool;
 		} else {
 			/* meh... not running there, queue here */
 			raw_spin_unlock(&last_pool->lock);
-			raw_spin_lock(&pwq->pool->lock);
+			raw_spin_lock(&pool->lock);
 		}
 	} else {
-		raw_spin_lock(&pwq->pool->lock);
+		raw_spin_lock(&pool->lock);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -1657,7 +1656,7 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!pwq->refcnt)) {
 		if (wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND) {
-			raw_spin_unlock(&pwq->pool->lock);
+			raw_spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
 			cpu_relax();
 			goto retry;
 		}
@@ -1676,21 +1675,22 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 	work_flags = work_color_to_flags(pwq->work_color);
 
 	if (likely(pwq->nr_active < pwq->max_active)) {
+		if (list_empty(&pool->worklist))
+			pool->watchdog_ts = jiffies;
+
 		trace_workqueue_activate_work(work);
 		pwq->nr_active++;
-		worklist = &pwq->pool->worklist;
-		if (list_empty(worklist))
-			pwq->pool->watchdog_ts = jiffies;
+		insert_work(pwq, work, &pool->worklist, work_flags);
+
+		if (__need_more_worker(pool))
+			wake_up_worker(pool);
 	} else {
 		work_flags |= WORK_STRUCT_INACTIVE;
-		worklist = &pwq->inactive_works;
+		insert_work(pwq, work, &pwq->inactive_works, work_flags);
 	}
 
-	debug_work_activate(work);
-	insert_work(pwq, work, worklist, work_flags);
-
 out:
-	raw_spin_unlock(&pwq->pool->lock);
+	raw_spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
@@ -2994,7 +2994,6 @@ static void insert_wq_barrier(struct pool_workqueue *pwq,
 	pwq->nr_in_flight[work_color]++;
 	work_flags |= work_color_to_flags(work_color);
 
-	debug_work_activate(&barr->work);
 	insert_work(pwq, &barr->work, head, work_flags);
 }
 
-- 
2.40.1