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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2014-07-22 13:01:59 +0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-07-22 10:37:52 -0400
commita489a03eca74cd1d5ac771f4b2ae2c826aab0b30 (patch)
tree7ac69e996945da543012d86bc2efe66cb5c082a2 /kernel/workqueue.c
parentd8ca83e68c8c7efd8e5920a046d5c576b08609f0 (diff)
downloadlinux-a489a03eca74cd1d5ac771f4b2ae2c826aab0b30.tar.gz
workqueue: remove an unneeded UNBOUND test before waking up the next worker
In process_one_work():

	if ((worker->flags & WORKER_UNBOUND) && need_more_worker(pool))
		wake_up_worker(pool);

the first test is unneeded.  Even if the first test is removed, it
doesn't affect the wake-up logic for WORKER_UNBOUND, and it will not
introduce any useless wake-ups for normal per-cpu workers since
nr_running is always >= 1.  It will introduce useless/redundant
wake-ups for CPU_INTENSIVE, but this case is rare and the next patch
will also remove this redundant wake-up.

tj: Minor updates to the description and comment.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index d3444169e261..c20cfbe89194 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2048,10 +2048,13 @@ __acquires(&pool->lock)
 		worker_set_flags(worker, WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE, true);
 
 	/*
-	 * Unbound pool isn't concurrency managed and work items should be
-	 * executed ASAP.  Wake up another worker if necessary.
+	 * Wake up another worker if necessary.  The condition is always
+	 * false for normal per-cpu workers since nr_running would always
+	 * be >= 1 at this point.  This is used to chain execution of the
+	 * pending work items for WORKER_NOT_RUNNING workers such as the
+	 * UNBOUND ones.
 	 */
-	if ((worker->flags & WORKER_UNBOUND) && need_more_worker(pool))
+	if (need_more_worker(pool))
 		wake_up_worker(pool);
 
 	/*