Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: SDCA: Replace use of system_wq with system_dfl_wq

[Charles Keepax]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 03:34:29PM +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 after a careful review and conversion of each individual
> case, 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 specific workload has no benefits being per-cpu, so system_wq
> has been replaced with system_dfl_wq (the unbound workqueue).
> 
> This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be
> removed in the future.
> 
> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Charles