Re: [RFC PATCH] net: wireless: move regulatory timeout work to power efficient workqueue

[Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>]

Hi

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 04:35:31AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:21:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is part of a larger patchset actually adding that
> > "system_power_efficient_wq", but maybe it'd be better to expose a
> > function as an API rather than the wq struct?
> > 
> > Something like
> > 
> > scheduled_delayed_work_pwr_efficient(...)?
> 
> While there are some benefits to using dedicated functions for
> specific workqueues, I don't think it brings enough benefits to
> justify adding dedicated API and am unlikely to add new ones.

What are selection criteria when choosing between system_wq or
system_power_efficient_wq on drivers ? IOW if I would be writing
a new driver which workqueue should I use and when ?

I think that should be driver independent, at least for most of drivers.
If system have to run in low power mode, system_power_efficient_wq
should be chosen automatically by schedule_work(), otherwise when high
performance is more important schedule_work() should use system_wq.

Stanislaw