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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2023-05-25 12:15:36 -1000
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2023-05-25 12:15:36 -1000
commit78ef970385ea4d02a44af2776e4f4c74d4fce3d4 (patch)
treee6a76235e570a0a17b7e6ed8de7f1fb6e3f1818b
parent022acfa632607735833eab34487a098c1ee9a7fc (diff)
rxrpc: Use alloc_ordered_workqueue() to create ordered workqueues
BACKGROUND ========== When multiple work items are queued to a workqueue, their execution order doesn't match the queueing order. They may get executed in any order and simultaneously. When fully serialized execution - one by one in the queueing order - is needed, an ordered workqueue should be used which can be created with alloc_ordered_workqueue(). However, alloc_ordered_workqueue() was a later addition. Before it, an ordered workqueue could be obtained by creating an UNBOUND workqueue with @max_active==1. This originally was an implementation side-effect which was broken by 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered"). Because there were users that depended on the ordered execution, 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered") made workqueue allocation path to implicitly promote UNBOUND workqueues w/ @max_active==1 to ordered workqueues. While this has worked okay, overloading the UNBOUND allocation interface this way creates other issues. It's difficult to tell whether a given workqueue actually needs to be ordered and users that legitimately want a min concurrency level wq unexpectedly gets an ordered one instead. With planned UNBOUND workqueue updates to improve execution locality and more prevalence of chiplet designs which can benefit from such improvements, this isn't a state we wanna be in forever. This patch series audits all callsites that create an UNBOUND workqueue w/ @max_active==1 and converts them to alloc_ordered_workqueue() as necessary. WHAT TO LOOK FOR ================ The conversions are from alloc_workqueue(WQ_UNBOUND | flags, 1, args..) to alloc_ordered_workqueue(flags, args...) which don't cause any functional changes. If you know that fully ordered execution is not necessary, please let me know. I'll drop the conversion and instead add a comment noting the fact to reduce confusion while conversion is in progress. If you aren't fully sure, it's completely fine to let the conversion through. The behavior will stay exactly the same and we can always reconsider later. As there are follow-up workqueue core changes, I'd really appreciate if the patch can be routed through the workqueue tree w/ your acks. Thanks. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
-rw-r--r--net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
index 31f738d65f1c..7eb24c25c731 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
@@ -988,7 +988,7 @@ static int __init af_rxrpc_init(void)
goto error_call_jar;
}
- rxrpc_workqueue = alloc_workqueue("krxrpcd", WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND, 1);
+ rxrpc_workqueue = alloc_ordered_workqueue("krxrpcd", WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
if (!rxrpc_workqueue) {
pr_notice("Failed to allocate work queue\n");
goto error_work_queue;