workqueue: Kick a worker based on the actual activation of delayed works

In realtime scenario, We do not want to have interference on the isolated cpu cores. but when invoking alloc_workqueue() for percpu wq on the housekeeping cpu, it kick a kworker on the isolated cpu. alloc_workqueue pwq_adjust_max_active wake_up_worker The comment in pwq_adjust_max_active() said: "Need to kick a worker after thawed or an unbound wq's max_active is bumped" So it is unnecessary to kick a kworker for percpu's wq when invoking alloc_workqueue(). this patch only kick a worker based on the actual activation of delayed works.

Yunfeng Ye committed 5 years ago

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 	 * is updated and visible.
 	 */
 	if (!freezable || !workqueue_freezing) {
+		bool kick = false;
 		pwq->max_active = wq->saved_max_active;
 		while (!list_empty(&pwq->delayed_works) &&
-		       pwq->nr_active < pwq->max_active)
+		       pwq->nr_active < pwq->max_active) {
 			pwq_activate_first_delayed(pwq);
+			kick = true;
+		}
 		/*
 		 * Need to kick a worker after thawed or an unbound wq's
-		 * max_active is bumped.  It's a slow path.  Do it always.
+		 * max_active is bumped. In realtime scenarios, always kicking a
+		 * worker will cause interference on the isolated cpu cores, so
+		 * let's kick iff work items were activated.
 		 */
-		wake_up_worker(pwq->pool);
+		if (kick)
+			wake_up_worker(pwq->pool);
 	} else {
 		pwq->max_active = 0;
 	}