Let's consider a nohz_full system with isolated CPUs: wq_unbound_cpumask is
set to the housekeeping CPUs, for !WQ_UNBOUND the local CPU is selected.
This leads to different scenarios if a work item is scheduled on an
isolated CPU where "delay" value is 0 or greater then 0:
schedule_delayed_work(, 0);
This will be handled by __queue_work() that will queue the work item on the
current local (isolated) CPU, while:
schedule_delayed_work(, 1);
Will move the timer on an housekeeping CPU, and schedule the work there.
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.
=== Changes to the WQ API ===
The following, address the recent changes in the Workqueue API:
- commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
- commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")
The old workqueues will be removed in a future release cycle.
=== Introduced Changes by this series ===
1) [P 1] Replace uses of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
2) [P 2] Replace uses of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_long_wq
No behavioral changes are introduced.
Thanks!
Marco Crivellari (2):
ipmr: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
ipvs: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_long_wq
net/ipv4/ipmr_base.c | 2 +-
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 4 ++--
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 10 +++++-----
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--
2.54.0