PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
authorViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:42:55 +0000 (17:12 +0530)
committerMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:30:20 +0000 (14:30 +0100)
commitbbe9f36ad93d3404e4c99509f6d13aed67fce02e
treea0bb0be14413720ef1e598cda1abc6fa2934bf8e
parent7399c448c57c930a065e0ab77870ab84dc0dbf61
PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq

Phylib 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 system_wq with system_power_efficient_wq for PHYLIB.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit bbb47bdeae756f04b896b55b51f230f3eb21f207)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
drivers/net/phy/phy.c