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From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
To: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"Riley Andrews" <riandrews@android.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] android: binder: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 22:16:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160813164624.GA9414@Karyakshetra> (raw)

The workqueue is being used to run deferred work for the android binder.

The "binder_deferred_workqueue" queues only a single work item and hence
does not require ordering. Also, this workqueue is not being used on a
memory recliam path. Hence, the singlethreaded workqueue has been
replaced with the use of system_wq.

System workqueues have been able to handle high level of concurrency
for a long time now and hence it's not required to have a singlethreaded
workqueue just to gain concurrency. Unlike a dedicated per-cpu workqueue
created with create_singlethread_workqueue(), system_wq allows multiple
work items to overlap executions even on the same CPU; however, a
per-cpu workqueue doesn't have any CPU locality or global ordering
guarantee unless the target CPU is explicitly specified and thus the
increase of local concurrency shouldn't make any difference.

Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/android/binder.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
index 16288e7..562af94 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binder.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binder.c
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ static struct dentry *binder_debugfs_dir_entry_proc;
 static struct binder_node *binder_context_mgr_node;
 static kuid_t binder_context_mgr_uid = INVALID_UID;
 static int binder_last_id;
-static struct workqueue_struct *binder_deferred_workqueue;

 #define BINDER_DEBUG_ENTRY(name) \
 static int binder_##name##_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) \
@@ -3227,7 +3226,7 @@ binder_defer_work(struct binder_proc *proc, enum binder_deferred_state defer)
 	if (hlist_unhashed(&proc->deferred_work_node)) {
 		hlist_add_head(&proc->deferred_work_node,
 				&binder_deferred_list);
-		queue_work(binder_deferred_workqueue, &binder_deferred_work);
+		schedule_work(&binder_deferred_work);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&binder_deferred_lock);
 }
@@ -3679,10 +3678,6 @@ static int __init binder_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;

-	binder_deferred_workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("binder");
-	if (!binder_deferred_workqueue)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	binder_debugfs_dir_entry_root = debugfs_create_dir("binder", NULL);
 	if (binder_debugfs_dir_entry_root)
 		binder_debugfs_dir_entry_proc = debugfs_create_dir("proc",
--
2.1.4

             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-13 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-13 16:46 Bhaktipriya Shridhar [this message]
2016-08-15 23:00 ` Tejun Heo

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