Hi

Am 30.10.25 um 17:20 schrieb Marco Crivellari:
Hi,

=== Current situation: problems ===

Let's consider a nohz_full system with isolated CPUs: wq_unbound_cpumask is
set to the housekeeping CPUs, for !WQ_UNBOUND the local CPU is selected.

This leads to different scenarios if a work item is scheduled on an
isolated CPU where "delay" value is 0 or greater then 0:
         schedule_delayed_work(, 0);

This will be handled by __queue_work() that will queue the work item on the
current local (isolated) CPU, while:

         schedule_delayed_work(, 1);

Will move the timer on an housekeeping CPU, and schedule the work there.

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.

=== Recent changes to the WQ API ===

The following, address the recent changes in the Workqueue API:

- commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
- commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

The old workqueues will be removed in a future release cycle.

=== Introduced Changes by this series ===

1) [P 1-2-3]  Replace uses of system_wq and system_unbound_wq

     system_wq is a per-CPU workqueue, but his name is not clear.
     system_unbound_wq is to be used when locality is not required.

     Because of that, system_wq has been replaced with system_percpu_wq, and
     system_unbound_wq has been replaced with system_dfl_wq.

From the description, I've found it hard to see if there's a change in semantics here. But this series is effectively about renaming AFAICT. If so,

Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>

for all patches.

Best regards
Thomas


Thanks!


Marco Crivellari (3):
   drm/atomic-helper: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
   drm/probe-helper: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
   drm/self_refresh: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c       | 6 +++---
  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c        | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_self_refresh_helper.c | 2 +-
  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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