workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues

This patch adds system wide workqueues aligned towards power saving. This is
done by allocating them with WQ_UNBOUND flag if 'wq_power_efficient' is set to
'true'.

tj: updated comments a bit.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Viresh Kumar 2013-04-24 17:12:54 +05:30 committed by Tejun Heo
parent cee22a1505
commit 0668106ca3
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@ -360,11 +360,19 @@ enum {
*
* system_freezable_wq is equivalent to system_wq except that it's
* freezable.
*
* *_power_efficient_wq are inclined towards saving power and converted
* into WQ_UNBOUND variants if 'wq_power_efficient' is enabled; otherwise,
* they are same as their non-power-efficient counterparts - e.g.
* system_power_efficient_wq is identical to system_wq if
* 'wq_power_efficient' is disabled. See WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for more info.
*/
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_long_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_unbound_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_power_efficient_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_power_efficient_wq;
static inline struct workqueue_struct * __deprecated __system_nrt_wq(void)
{