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io_uring: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Fri, 5 Sep 2025 09:02:40 +0000 (11:02 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:21:03 +0000 (08:21 -0600)
commit9f5f69d98efbcd4edb1c191cf91418688145e0d5
tree9bc1ab59543fb5a50582bae134fccc7b8374a152
parent8577441d4a9c8fb5c6da1cde31708c3abb8d4cf8
io_uring: 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>
io_uring/io_uring.c