linux-sg2042/block
Viresh Kumar 695588f945 block: queue work on power efficient wq
Block layer 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 normal workqueues with power efficient versions.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-05-14 10:50:07 -07:00
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partitions partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's 2013-04-30 08:34:25 +02:00
Kconfig block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM 2013-02-22 10:42:45 +01:00
Kconfig.iosched blkcg: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP bool 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
Makefile separate partition format handling from generic code 2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00
blk-cgroup.c blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start 2013-04-09 15:01:21 +02:00
blk-cgroup.h cgroup: fix cgroup_path() vs rename() race 2013-03-04 09:50:08 -08:00
blk-core.c block: queue work on power efficient wq 2013-05-14 10:50:07 -07:00
blk-exec.c Merge branch 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-02-28 12:52:24 -08:00
blk-flush.c Block: blk-flush: Fixed indent code style 2013-03-22 12:22:51 -06:00
blk-integrity.c scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end 2013-03-20 15:43:04 +10:30
blk-ioc.c block: queue work on power efficient wq 2013-05-14 10:50:07 -07:00
blk-iopoll.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
blk-lib.c block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request 2013-02-15 16:45:07 +01:00
blk-map.c block: re-use existing 'reading' variable instead of checking direction again 2011-12-21 15:27:24 +01:00
blk-merge.c scatterlist: introduce sg_unmark_end 2013-03-20 15:43:04 +10:30
blk-settings.c block: discard granularity might not be power of 2 2012-12-14 20:46:04 +01:00
blk-softirq.c sched, block: Unify cache detection 2012-01-27 13:28:48 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c block: avoid using uninitialized value in from queue_var_store 2013-04-03 21:53:57 +02:00
blk-tag.c block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree 2012-09-12 22:25:12 +02:00
blk-throttle.c block: Rename queue dead flag 2012-12-06 14:30:58 +01:00
blk-timeout.c block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue() 2012-06-15 08:46:23 +02:00
blk.h block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation 2013-01-11 14:43:13 +01:00
bsg-lib.c bsg: Remove unused function bsg_goose_queue() 2012-12-06 14:33:02 +01:00
bsg.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
cfq-iosched.c block: Add bio_end_sector() 2013-03-23 14:15:29 -07:00
compat_ioctl.c block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl 2012-01-11 16:29:31 +01:00
deadline-iosched.c block: Add bio_end_sector() 2013-03-23 14:15:29 -07:00
elevator.c block: implement runtime pm strategy 2013-03-22 22:22:15 -06:00
genhd.c block: queue work on power efficient wq 2013-05-14 10:50:07 -07:00
ioctl.c Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2012-10-11 09:04:23 +09:00
noop-iosched.c elevator: make elevator_init_fn() return 0/-errno 2012-03-06 21:27:21 +01:00
partition-generic.c Revert "loop: cleanup partitions when detaching loop device" 2013-04-08 10:12:11 +02:00
scsi_ioctl.c aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00