From ed48ece27cd3d5ee0354c32bbaec0f3e1d4715c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:48:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq The existing work_on_cpu() implementation is hugely inefficient. It creates a new kthread, execute that single function and then let the kthread die on each invocation. Now that system_wq can handle concurrent executions, there's no advantage of doing this. Reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq which makes it simpler and way more efficient. stable: While this isn't a fix in itself, it's needed to fix a workqueue related bug in cpufreq/powernow-k8. AFAICS, this shouldn't break other existing users. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Len Brown Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- Reading git-format-patch failed