From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] drm/nouveau: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:20:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251031102020.95349-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251031102020.95349-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com>
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>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
index 1527b801f013..5a2970ef27d4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ nouveau_drm_device_init(struct nouveau_drm *drm)
struct drm_device *dev = drm->dev;
int ret;
- drm->sched_wq = alloc_workqueue("nouveau_sched_wq_shared", 0,
+ drm->sched_wq = alloc_workqueue("nouveau_sched_wq_shared", WQ_PERCPU,
WQ_MAX_ACTIVE);
if (!drm->sched_wq)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
index e60f7892f5ce..79cf157ab2a5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ nouveau_sched_init(struct nouveau_sched *sched, struct nouveau_drm *drm,
int ret;
if (!wq) {
- wq = alloc_workqueue("nouveau_sched_wq_%d", 0, WQ_MAX_ACTIVE,
+ wq = alloc_workqueue("nouveau_sched_wq_%d", WQ_PERCPU,
+ WQ_MAX_ACTIVE,
current->pid);
if (!wq)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-31 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-31 10:20 [PATCH 0/2] replaced old wq name, added WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue Marco Crivellari
2025-10-31 10:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] drm/nouveau: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq Marco Crivellari
2026-04-28 8:58 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2025-10-31 10:20 ` Marco Crivellari [this message]
2025-12-02 13:20 ` [PATCH 0/2] replaced old wq name, added WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue Marco Crivellari
2026-02-04 10:35 ` Marco Crivellari
2026-03-05 15:10 ` Marco Crivellari
2026-03-31 10:16 ` Marco Crivellari
2026-04-09 9:59 ` Marco Crivellari
2026-04-28 10:59 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-28 11:19 ` Marco Crivellari
2026-04-28 14:12 ` Danilo Krummrich
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