From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
To: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@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>, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] ipmr: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 14:17:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260517111703.GA161551@shredder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260515135143.259669-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com>
On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 03:51:36PM +0200, 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, 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 way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be
> removed in the future.
>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/
> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-17 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-15 13:51 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] net: Replace system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq Marco Crivellari
2026-05-15 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] ipmr: Replace use of " Marco Crivellari
2026-05-17 11:17 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2026-05-15 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] ipvs: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_long_wq Marco Crivellari
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