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bpf: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 5 Sep 2025 08:53:08 +0000 (10:53 +0200)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Sep 2025 17:04:37 +0000 (10:04 -0700)
commit0409819a002165e9471113598323eb72bba17a53
tree24155e6ce3a3ac3fb2e17a633db120f8ecf1d070
parent34f86083a4e1887ada121d2b5c4f47cc038a3356
bpf: 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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905085309.94596-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
kernel/bpf/helpers.c
kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
kernel/bpf/syscall.c