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padata: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 5 Sep 2025 09:05:32 +0000 (11:05 +0200)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:11:06 +0000 (12:11 +0800)
commitb6d02e0e41aa87aaa46b9b995e71a585284c5d27
tree5a79b80baf8b86562e65eec5c477d74eed6f4292
parenta5d71f011ee1f211e437333555fd981e040c146c
padata: 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>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
kernel/padata.c