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bpf: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 5 Sep 2025 08:53:07 +0000 (10:53 +0200)
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Sep 2025 17:04:37 +0000 (10:04 -0700)
commit34f86083a4e1887ada121d2b5c4f47cc038a3356
tree26f909aeaa9dc6427212f4c8c6ef3b98300302f9
parent93a83d044314b041ffe2bb1d43b8b0cea7f60921
bpf: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_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_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that
CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make
it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq.

queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new per-cpu wq: whether the user still stick on the old name a warn will
be printed along a wq redirect to the new one.

This patch add the new system_percpu_wq except for mm, fs and net
subsystem, whom are handled in separated patches.

The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905085309.94596-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
kernel/bpf/cgroup.c
kernel/bpf/cpumap.c