irq: Set CPU affinity right on thread creation

As irq_thread_check_affinity is called ONLY inside the while loop in
the irq thread, the core affinity is set only when an interrupt
occurs. This patch sets the core affinity right after the irq thread
is created and before it waits for interrupts. In real-tiime targets
that do not typically change the core affinity of irqs during
run-time, this patch will save additional latency of an irq thread in
setting the core affinity during the first interrupt occurrence for
that irq.

Signed-off-by: Sankara S Muthukrishnan <sankara.m@ni.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAFQPvXeVZ858WFYimEU5uvLNxLDd6bJMmqWihFmbCf3ntokz0A@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Blechd0se <alex.christ@hotmail.de>
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>
Signed-off-by: Blechd0se <alex.christ@hotmail.de>
workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues

Adapted for 3.4 from lsk-v3.10

This patch adds system wide workqueues aligned towards power saving. This is
done by allocating them with WQ_UNBOUND flag if 'wq_power_efficient' is set to
'true'.

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>
Signed-off-by: Blechd0se <alex.christ@hotmail.de>
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>
Signed-off-by: Blechd0se <alex.christ@hotmail.de>