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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2010-07-01 18:05:56 +0300
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2010-07-06 12:27:48 -0400
commit8eab945c5616fc984e97b922d6a2559be93f39a1 (patch)
tree13ad5889aae1f8f3541a5a49e9decf42240e445c /include/linux/sunrpc
parentcba9ba4b902270c22f8b9c5149a284216b633fc1 (diff)
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 <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sunrpc')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
index 6f52b4d7c44..7bf3e84b92f 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);