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RDMA/core: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Sat, 1 Nov 2025 16:31:12 +0000 (17:31 +0100)
committerLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 07:23:23 +0000 (02:23 -0500)
commite60c5583b661da65b09bfd6ae91126607397490e
tree5a332a248127554ad22f3bd0e8460eff8ac757d9
parentf673fb3449fcd8afdd7f67277217a93b2fcba435
RDMA/core: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users

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.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This change adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request
alloc_workqueue() to be per-cpu when WQ_UNBOUND has not been specified.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101163121.78400-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c
drivers/infiniband/core/device.c