From 8eab945c5616fc984e97b922d6a2559be93f39a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:05:56 +0300 Subject: sunrpc: make the cache cleaner workqueue deferrable This patch makes the cache_cleaner workqueue deferrable, to prevent unnecessary system wake-ups, which is very important for embedded battery-powered devices. do_cache_clean() is called every 30 seconds at the moment, and often makes the system wake up from its power-save sleep state. With this change, when the workqueue uses a deferrable timer, the do_cache_clean() invocation will be delayed and combined with the closest "real" wake-up. This improves the power consumption situation. Note, I tried to create a DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE() helper macro, similar to DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(), but failed because of the way the timer wheel core stores the deferrable flag (it is the LSBit in the time->base pointer). My attempt to define a static variable with this bit set ended up with the "initializer element is not constant" error. Thus, I have to use run-time initialization, so I created a new cache_initialize() function which is called once when sunrpc is being initialized. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h index 6f52b4d7c447..7bf3e84b92f4 100644 --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ extern int cache_check(struct cache_detail *detail, extern void cache_flush(void); extern void cache_purge(struct cache_detail *detail); #define NEVER (0x7FFFFFFF) +extern void __init cache_initialize(void); extern int cache_register(struct cache_detail *cd); extern void cache_unregister(struct cache_detail *cd); -- cgit v1.2.3