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authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>2025-09-05 11:13:23 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2025-09-05 07:19:09 -1000
commitf6cfa602d2ba7e5ca9dc65ec4141521aca80bda2 (patch)
treeed38bc4fd633e33bf54f3d71478f331e63e60155 /kernel/workqueue.c
parentad7c7f4b9c6c2950778e5bd305392a333de73912 (diff)
workqueue: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API. system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required. Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used. queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() / mod_delayed_work() will now use the new unbound wq: whether the user still use the old wq a warn will be printed along with a wq redirect to the new one. The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 59faf857ee4f..2888f4399acd 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2932,7 +2932,7 @@ static void idle_worker_timeout(struct timer_list *t)
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);
if (do_cull)
- queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &pool->idle_cull_work);
+ queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &pool->idle_cull_work);
}
/**