workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented …
…workqueues

Adapted for 3.4 from lsk-v3.10

Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
core that is already awake.

Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system.  To enable
power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
block: queue work on power efficient wq

Adapted for 3.4 from lsk-v3.10

Block layer 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 normal workqueues with power efficient versions.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq

Adapted for 3.4 from lsk-v3.10

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_power_efficient_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>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ASoC: pcm: Use the power efficient workqueue for delayed powerdown

Adapted for 3.4 from lsk-v3.10

There is no need to use a normal per-CPU workqueue for delayed power downs
as they're not timing or performance critical and waking up a core for them
would defeat some of the point.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
regulator: core: Use the power efficient workqueue for delayed powerdown

There is no need to use a normal per-CPU workqueue for delayed power downs
as they're not timing or performance critical and waking up a core for them
would defeat some of the point.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
ASoC: jack: Use power efficient workqueue

The accessory detect debounce work is not performance sensitive so let
the scheduler run it wherever is most efficient rather than in a per CPU
workqueue by using the system power efficient workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
defconfig: Enable WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT