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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Mallesh Koujalagi <mallesh.koujalagi@intel.com>
Cc: jiangshanlai@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anshuman.gupta@intel.com,
	raag.jadav@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Update schedule_work() documentation to reflect per-CPU nature
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:58:15 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaCJt0w9d6kDoOO5@slm.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260226104659.3227091-2-mallesh.koujalagi@intel.com>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 04:17:00PM +0530, Mallesh Koujalagi wrote:
> The function documentation for schedule_work(), schedule_delayed_work(),
> and schedule_delayed_work_on() still described them as using "global" or
> "kernel-global" workqueues, which is misleading after commit a2be943b46b4
> ("workqueue: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq").
> 
> These functions now use system_percpu_wq, which is a per-CPU workqueue
> where work items are executed on the CPU where they were queued. Update
> the documentation to accurately reflect this CPU affinity behavior.

Note that system_wq has always been a percpu workqueue. We've been just
renaming things. Nothing wrong with updating documentation but the commit
message is misleading.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2026-02-26 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-26 10:47 Mallesh Koujalagi
2026-02-26 17:58 ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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