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| author |   Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> | 2015-10-17 16:36:24 -0400 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-10-17 21:32:21 -0700 |
| commit | e052c6d15c61cc4caff2f06cbca72b183da9f15e (patch) | |
| tree | 833a650c7a1fa3581416b433adbaa890dbe31962 /drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | |
| parent | tty: Abstract tty buffer work (diff) | |
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tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workers
The commonly accepted wisdom that scheduling work on the same cpu
that handled interrupt i/o benefits from cache-locality is only
true if the cpu is idle (since bound kworkers are often the highest
vruntime and thus the lowest priority).
Measurements of scheduling via the unbound queue show lowered
worst-case latency responses of up to 5x over bound workqueue, without
increase in average latency or throughput.
pty i/o test measurements show >3x (!) reduced total running time; tests
previously taking ~8s now complete in <2.5s.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c index 7cc16db37e0e..9a479e61791a 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c @@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ void tty_schedule_flip(struct tty_port *port) * flush_to_ldisc() sees buffer data. */ smp_store_release(&buf->tail->commit, buf->tail->used); - schedule_work(&buf->work); + queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &buf->work); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_schedule_flip); |