fbcon uses workqueues and it has 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.
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index 3cd6759..6c1f7c3 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static void cursor_timer_handler(unsigned long dev_addr)
struct fb_info *info = (struct fb_info *) dev_addr;
struct fbcon_ops *ops = info->fbcon_par;
- schedule_work(&info->queue);
+ queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &info->queue);
mod_timer(&ops->cursor_timer, jiffies + HZ/5);
}
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