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authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>2025-10-30 17:20:41 +0100
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2026-02-09 09:40:46 +0100
commitb351df4bbd127f3fa80b06f1a0cd7ccfcded4f7a (patch)
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parent9d757669b2b22cd224c334924f798393ffca537c (diff)
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drm/atomic-helper: 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> Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030162043.292468-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
index cc1f0c102414..d422f79b96db 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
@@ -2301,13 +2301,13 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
* current layout.
*
* NOTE: Commit work has multiple phases, first hardware commit, then
- * cleanup. We want them to overlap, hence need system_unbound_wq to
+ * cleanup. We want them to overlap, hence need system_dfl_wq to
* make sure work items don't artificially stall on each another.
*/
drm_atomic_state_get(state);
if (nonblock)
- queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &state->commit_work);
+ queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &state->commit_work);
else
commit_tail(state);
@@ -2340,7 +2340,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_commit);
*
* Asynchronous workers need to have sufficient parallelism to be able to run
* different atomic commits on different CRTCs in parallel. The simplest way to
- * achieve this is by running them on the &system_unbound_wq work queue. Note
+ * achieve this is by running them on the &system_dfl_wq work queue. Note
* that drivers are not required to split up atomic commits and run an
* individual commit in parallel - userspace is supposed to do that if it cares.
* But it might be beneficial to do that for modesets, since those necessarily