Re: [PATCH V5 5/5] fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue May 14 2013 - 13:58:14 EST


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:12:57PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 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_power_efficient_wq.
>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

Dave, applied this to wq/for-3.11. Please holler if you want this to
be routed differently.

Thanks!

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tejun
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