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From: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
To: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@opensource.cirrus.com, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Maciej Strozek <mstrozek@opensource.cirrus.com>,
	Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@linux.intel.com>,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.dev>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: SDCA: Replace use of system_wq with system_dfl_wq
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 13:23:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aV0M5deGtAHqvTvk@opensource.cirrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251230143429.179643-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com>

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 03:34:29PM +0100, Marco Crivellari wrote:
> This patch continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which has begun
> with the changes introducing new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag:
> 
>    commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
>    commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")
> 
> The point of the refactoring is to eventually alter the default behavior of
> workqueues to become unbound by default so that their workload placement is
> optimized by the scheduler.
> 
> Before that to happen after a careful review and conversion of each individual
> case, workqueue users must be converted to the better named new workqueues with
> no intended behaviour changes:
> 
>    system_wq -> system_percpu_wq
>    system_unbound_wq -> system_dfl_wq
> 
> This specific workload has no benefits being per-cpu, so system_wq
> has been replaced with system_dfl_wq (the unbound workqueue).
> 
> This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be
> removed in the future.
> 
> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>

Thanks,
Charles

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-06 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-30 14:34 [PATCH v2] ASoC: SDCA: Replace use of system_wq with system_dfl_wq Marco Crivellari
2026-01-06 13:23 ` Charles Keepax [this message]
2026-01-06 18:48 ` Mark Brown
2026-01-07  8:50   ` Marco Crivellari

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