Re: [PATCH] ovpn: Replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

[Antonio Quartulli]

On 24/12/2025 16:50, 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 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>

Hello Marco and sorry for the delay.
The patch looks good.

Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Jakub, do you mind picking this up directly in your tree?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

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Antonio Quartulli
OpenVPN Inc.