freezer: skip waking up tasks with PF_FREEZER_SKIP set
authorColin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Mon, 6 May 2013 23:50:11 +0000 (23:50 +0000)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Sun, 12 May 2013 12:16:22 +0000 (14:16 +0200)
commit613f5d13b569859171f0896fbc73ee0bfa811fda
tree92f3f25db1fe1063624cc0ef69506d2f38a1988a
parent18ad0c6297df1d671ecea83b608cd9e432642a05
freezer: skip waking up tasks with PF_FREEZER_SKIP set

Android goes through suspend/resume very often (every few seconds when
on a busy wifi network with the screen off), and a significant portion
of the energy used to go in and out of suspend is spent in the
freezer.  If a task has called freezer_do_not_count(), don't bother
waking it up.  If it happens to wake up later it will call
freezer_count() and immediately enter the refrigerator.

Combined with patches to convert freezable helpers to use
freezer_do_not_count() and convert common sites where idle userspace
tasks are blocked to use the freezable helpers, this reduces the
time and energy required to suspend and resume.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
kernel/freezer.c