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drm/atomic-helper: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:20:41 +0000 (17:20 +0100)
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:40:46 +0000 (09:40 +0100)
commitb351df4bbd127f3fa80b06f1a0cd7ccfcded4f7a
tree833840c92a2342fdf30cc3f7d1cba895b064db4a
parent9d757669b2b22cd224c334924f798393ffca537c
drm/atomic-helper: 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 consistency 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>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030162043.292468-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c