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@xxxxxxxxx>
---
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
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