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RDMA/core: RDMA/mlx5: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Sat, 1 Nov 2025 16:31:11 +0000 (17:31 +0100)
committerLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Thu, 6 Nov 2025 07:23:23 +0000 (02:23 -0500)
commitf673fb3449fcd8afdd7f67277217a93b2fcba435
tree6ca0b916c9ba9e341eb29243be4f24970d42a16e
parentda58d4223b1690dd47652aa4b5227f39ab139b76
RDMA/core: RDMA/mlx5: 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 consistency 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.

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>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101163121.78400-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.c