On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 06:19:14PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote: > Removing power hints for kworker threads enables easier use of > workqueues in the power driver late callback. That would otherwise > lead to an endless loop unless it is prevented in the power driver.
There's many kworker users; some of them actually consume lots of cputime. Therefore how did you come to the conclusion that excepting all users was the better choice of a little added complexity in the one place where it actually matters? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/