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workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq

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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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Tejun Heo 2012-09-18 12:48:43 -07:00
parent 960bd11bf2
commit ed48ece27c
1 changed files with 8 additions and 17 deletions
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@ -3576,18 +3576,17 @@ 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;
}
/**
@ -3602,19 +3601,11 @@ 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);