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From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] [Doc] Workqueue: add WQ_PERCPU
Date: Mon,  9 Jun 2025 12:35:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250609103535.780069-5-marco.crivellari@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250609103535.780069-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com>

Workqueue documentation upgraded with the description
of the new added flag, WQ_PERCPU.

Also the WQ_UNBOUND flag documentation has been integrated

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
---
 Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
index e295835fc116..ae63a648a51b 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst
@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ resources, scheduled and executed.
   BH work items cannot sleep. All other features such as delayed queueing,
   flushing and canceling are supported.
 
+``WQ_PERCPU``
+  Work items queued to a per-cpu wq are bound to that specific CPU.
+  This flag it's the right choice when cpu locality is important.
+
+  This flag is the complement of ``WQ_UNBOUND``.
+
 ``WQ_UNBOUND``
   Work items queued to an unbound wq are served by the special
   worker-pools which host workers which are not bound to any
@@ -200,6 +206,10 @@ resources, scheduled and executed.
   * Long running CPU intensive workloads which can be better
     managed by the system scheduler.
 
+  **Note:** This flag will be removed in future and all the work
+  items that dosen't need to be bound to a specific CPU, should not
+  use this flags.
+
 ``WQ_FREEZABLE``
   A freezable wq participates in the freeze phase of the system
   suspend operations.  Work items on the wq are drained and no
-- 
2.49.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-06-09 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-09 10:35 [PATCH v2 0/4] Workqueue: rename system workqueue and " Marco Crivellari
2025-06-09 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Workqueue: add system_percpu_wq Marco Crivellari
2025-06-09 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Workqueue: add system_dfl_wq Marco Crivellari
2025-06-10  3:04   ` Lai Jiangshan
2025-06-10  8:56     ` Marco Crivellari
2025-06-10 21:44       ` Tejun Heo
2025-06-09 10:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] Workqueue: add WQ_PERCPU Marco Crivellari
2025-06-10  2:07   ` kernel test robot
2025-06-09 10:35 ` Marco Crivellari [this message]
2025-06-09 18:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Workqueue: rename system workqueue and " Tejun Heo
2025-06-10  8:34   ` Marco Crivellari
2025-06-10 21:38     ` Tejun Heo

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