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[07/47] netfilter: conntrack: Change to deferable work queue

Message ID 1504477589-12045-8-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org
State Accepted
Delegated to: Pablo Neira
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Series [01/47] netfilter: expect: add to hash table after expect init | expand

Commit Message

Pablo Neira Ayuso Sept. 3, 2017, 10:25 p.m. UTC 
From: "subashab@codeaurora.org" <subashab@codeaurora.org>

Delayed workqueue causes wakeups to idle CPUs. This was
causing a power impact for devices. Use deferable work
queue instead so that gc_worker runs when CPU is active only.

Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index 69746928cc0a..c6f1cf0bff56 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@  static void gc_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 
 static void conntrack_gc_work_init(struct conntrack_gc_work *gc_work)
 {
-	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&gc_work->dwork, gc_worker);
+	INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(&gc_work->dwork, gc_worker);
 	gc_work->next_gc_run = HZ;
 	gc_work->exiting = false;
 }