Re: [RFC PATCH] net: core: move core networking work to power efficient workqueue

2014-01-30 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 01:48 +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > On 31/01/14 01:33, Zoran Markovic wrote: > > From: Shaibal Dutta > > [...] > > > - schedule_delayed_work(&linkwatch_work, delay); > > + queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, > > + &linkwat

Re: [RFC PATCH] net: core: move core networking work to power efficient workqueue

2014-01-30 Thread Antonio Quartulli
On 31/01/14 01:33, Zoran Markovic wrote: > From: Shaibal Dutta [...] > - schedule_delayed_work(&linkwatch_work, delay); > + queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, > + &linkwatch_work, delay); before talking about technical details, here and in

[RFC PATCH] net: core: move core networking work to power efficient workqueue

2014-01-30 Thread Zoran Markovic
From: Shaibal Dutta This patch moves the following work to the power efficient workqueue: - Transmit work of netpoll - Destination cache garbage collector work - Link watch event handler work In general, assignment of CPUs to pending work could be deferred to the scheduler in order to exte