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From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: 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>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/events: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 13:30:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7658957-e218-452e-88a7-62176fef3163@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251106155831.306248-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com>


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On 06.11.25 16:58, 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 continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with
> the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:
> 
> commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
> commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")
> 
> Switch to using system_percpu_wq because system_wq is going away as part of
> a workqueue restructuring.
> 
> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

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  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-05 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-06 15:58 [PATCH 0/2] replace system_wq with system_percpu_wq, add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue Marco Crivellari
2025-11-06 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] xen/events: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq Marco Crivellari
2026-01-05 12:30   ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2025-11-06 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] xen: privcmd: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users Marco Crivellari
2026-01-05 12:30   ` Jürgen Groß
2025-12-24 15:05 ` [PATCH 0/2] replace system_wq with system_percpu_wq, add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue Marco Crivellari

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