Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: Replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

On 2026-01-13 12:46:29 [+0100], Marco Crivellari wrote:
> 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>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Sebastian