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

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2013-03-31 16:45:26
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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:01:45 +0530
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@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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