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smp: Use system_percpu_wq instead of system_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:03:32 +0000 (18:03 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:31:35 +0000 (17:31 +0100)
commit7eb28030f641d5bc7682c98602f896304efd31d2
tree17eeeae18d04f4366d463956aa97f6f374e644e4
parentb0473dcd4b1d7e2e44947e7ac1820c73a268821a
smp: Use system_percpu_wq instead of system_wq

When a caller enqueues a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the used
wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() uses
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when no target CPU is specified). The same applies
to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), which again
makes use of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

Continue the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with the
introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue() flag in:

  commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
  commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

and switch smp_call_on_cpu() to use system_percpu_wq because system_wq is
going away once the ongoing workqueue restructuring is done.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110170332.319314-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com
kernel/smp.c