Delayed workqueue causes wakeups to idle CPUs. This was causing a power impact for devices. Use deferable work queue instead so that gc_worker runs when CPU is active only.
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <[email protected]> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c index 9979f46..2a51ef9 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c @@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ static void gc_worker(struct work_struct *work) static void conntrack_gc_work_init(struct conntrack_gc_work *gc_work) { - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&gc_work->dwork, gc_worker); + INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(&gc_work->dwork, gc_worker); gc_work->next_gc_run = HZ; gc_work->exiting = false; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
