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drm/nouveau: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:20:19 +0000 (11:20 +0100)
committerDanilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:46:55 +0000 (12:46 +0200)
commitef1b53284175f6d57d81c8b4d99e33a6080cd9f6
tree7e12cb8bf985b4bf2798c86a238ea69d662adc8b
parente22bb770b01dc65c29553013e6278a84fc3c3d73
drm/nouveau: 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>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251031102020.95349-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c