drivers/block: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 5 Sep 2025 08:51:40 +0000 (10:51 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tue, 9 Sep 2025 15:11:31 +0000 (09:11 -0600)
commit456cefcb312d90d12dbcf7eaf6b3f7cfae6f622b
tree99a56a129ae07bcd22ee2e7259dc2631bf1b17a9
parent51723bf92679427bba09a76fc13e1b0a93b680bc
drivers/block: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq

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 consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.

Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.

queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() / mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new unbound wq: whether the user still use the old wq a warn will be
printed along with a wq redirect to the new one.

The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c