Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/ipv4: queue work on power efficient wq

2014-01-22 Thread David Miller
From: Viresh Kumar Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:23:32 +0530 > Workqueue used in ipv4 layer have no real dependency of scheduling these on > the > cpu which scheduled them. > > On a idle system, it is observed that an idle cpu wakes up many times just to > service this work. It would be better if w

[PATCH 1/2] net/ipv4: queue work on power efficient wq

2014-01-21 Thread Viresh Kumar
Workqueue used in ipv4 layer have no real dependency of scheduling these on the cpu which scheduled them. On a idle system, it is observed that an 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 a