RE: [PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: iwlwifi: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq

From: Korenblit, Miriam Rachel

Date: Tue Feb 10 2026 - 09:39:10 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 4:34 PM
> To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>; Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx>; Frederic
> Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>; Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
> <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@xxxxxxxx>; Michal
> Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>; Korenblit, Miriam Rachel
> <miriam.rachel.korenblit@xxxxxxxxx>; Johannes Berg
> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] wifi: iwlwifi: replace use of system_unbound_wq with
> system_dfl_wq
>
> 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>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
> b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
> index a552669db6e2..2f24b639c133 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-trans.h
> @@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ static inline void iwl_trans_schedule_reset(struct
> iwl_trans *trans,
> */
> trans->restart.during_reset = test_bit(STATUS_IN_SW_RESET,
> &trans->status);
> - queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &trans->restart.wk, 0);
> + queue_delayed_work(system_dfl_wq, &trans->restart.wk, 0);
> }
>
> static inline void iwl_trans_fw_error(struct iwl_trans *trans,
> --
> 2.52.0
>
Already took this in its previous version, I sent an email with "Acked-by" 😊
Same for the other one. Only the mvm one needed to be fixed