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drm/nouveau: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:20:20 +0000 (11:20 +0100)
committerDanilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:46:55 +0000 (12:46 +0200)
commitc82a16b0caac5799333bd3dc63c12ab4c6ee13b4
tree4acdb90d67fc07378e9ff5518d2fbc62361ac5f1
parentef1b53284175f6d57d81c8b4d99e33a6080cd9f6
drm/nouveau: 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/20251031102020.95349-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c