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rcu: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:50:37 +0000 (16:50 +0200)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:01:18 +0000 (02:01 -0700)
commit143ddfa169bbb733275b1a720bafd5a4366b3d89
treea752e568795850c99f3ff04686f9736c467cdc3b
parenta214365140cc3009f07d4e14a8b481fd3dc41d31
rcu: 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.

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>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
kernel/rcu/tasks.h