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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-09-18 12:48:43 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-02 09:47:22 -0700
commit3d45db6b5158a7f09f8be651577416ef6a4dcbd4 (patch)
tree04082fd9bf0d0a955752cc485a0d7f2b48464ff6 /kernel
parent896b6af471f67fc60cbab5a503cb8a764a8c47a4 (diff)
workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq
commit ed48ece27cd3d5ee0354c32bbaec0f3e1d4715c3 upstream. The existing work_on_cpu() implementation is hugely inefficient. It creates a new kthread, execute that single function and then let the kthread die on each invocation. Now that system_wq can handle concurrent executions, there's no advantage of doing this. Reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq which makes it simpler and way more efficient. stable: While this isn't a fix in itself, it's needed to fix a workqueue related bug in cpufreq/powernow-k8. AFAICS, this shouldn't break other existing users. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c25
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index e88c924fc6b3..ebd96393ae52 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3599,18 +3599,17 @@ static int __devinit workqueue_cpu_down_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
struct work_for_cpu {
- struct completion completion;
+ struct work_struct work;
long (*fn)(void *);
void *arg;
long ret;
};
-static int do_work_for_cpu(void *_wfc)
+static void work_for_cpu_fn(struct work_struct *work)
{
- struct work_for_cpu *wfc = _wfc;
+ struct work_for_cpu *wfc = container_of(work, struct work_for_cpu, work);
+
wfc->ret = wfc->fn(wfc->arg);
- complete(&wfc->completion);
- return 0;
}
/**
@@ -3625,19 +3624,11 @@ static int do_work_for_cpu(void *_wfc)
*/
long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long (*fn)(void *), void *arg)
{
- struct task_struct *sub_thread;
- struct work_for_cpu wfc = {
- .completion = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(wfc.completion),
- .fn = fn,
- .arg = arg,
- };
+ struct work_for_cpu wfc = { .fn = fn, .arg = arg };
- sub_thread = kthread_create(do_work_for_cpu, &wfc, "work_for_cpu");
- if (IS_ERR(sub_thread))
- return PTR_ERR(sub_thread);
- kthread_bind(sub_thread, cpu);
- wake_up_process(sub_thread);
- wait_for_completion(&wfc.completion);
+ INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&wfc.work, work_for_cpu_fn);
+ schedule_work_on(cpu, &wfc.work);
+ flush_work(&wfc.work);
return wfc.ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(work_on_cpu);