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net: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:24:25 +0000 (16:24 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:40:30 +0000 (17:40 -0700)
commit9870d350e45a5724ee25f77aa0b6d053c9b766db
tree7e17bb30dea6f7d02b5d852aa1a05c0088015b75
parentdfff18082a6c2c52b07a6e0830298c6b3f48dfa9
net: 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.

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://patch.msgid.link/20250918142427.309519-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/macvlan.c
drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c
net/core/link_watch.c
net/unix/garbage.c