From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
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>,
Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>,
Mika Westerberg <westeri@kernel.org>,
Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thunderbolt: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 10:44:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251107094409.GT2912318@black.igk.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251105162736.320591-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com>
On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 05:27:36PM +0100, Marco Crivellari wrote:
> Currently if a user enqueues 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.
>
> This patch continues the effort to refactor worqueue APIs, which has begun
> with the change 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")
>
> Replace system_wq with system_percpu_wq, keeping the old behavior.
> The old wq (system_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>
Applied to thunderbolt.git/next, thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-07 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-05 16:27 [PATCH] thunderbolt: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq Marco Crivellari
2025-11-07 9:44 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2025-11-07 10:49 ` Marco Crivellari
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