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>
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index fc0136b..a9f4119 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -360,11 +360,19 @@
*
* 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)
{