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From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: Replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:46:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260113114630.152942-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260113114630.152942-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com>

This patch continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which has begun
with the changes introducing new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag:

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

The point of the refactoring is to eventually alter the default behavior of
workqueues to become unbound by default so that their workload placement is
optimized by the scheduler.

Before that to happen, workqueue users must be converted to the better named
new workqueues with no intended behaviour changes:

   system_wq -> system_percpu_wq
   system_unbound_wq -> system_dfl_wq

This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be
removed in the future.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
---
 mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 2f65b5416228..4c6f0b85a24e 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ static int __init cgwb_init(void)
 {
 	/*
 	 * There can be many concurrent release work items overwhelming
-	 * system_wq.  Put them in a separate wq and limit concurrency.
+	 * system_percpu_wq.  Put them in a separate wq and limit concurrency.
 	 * There's no point in executing many of these in parallel.
 	 */
 	cgwb_release_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgwb_release", 0, 1);
-- 
2.52.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-13 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-13 11:46 [PATCH v2 0/3] Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users Marco Crivellari
2026-01-13 11:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq Marco Crivellari
2026-01-13 11:46 ` Marco Crivellari [this message]
2026-01-13 11:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users Marco Crivellari

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