[PATCH mt76 1/1] wifi: mt76: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

Marco Crivellari marco.crivellari at suse.com
Mon Sep 22 02:32:43 PDT 2025


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 consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_wq is the per-cpu workqueue, but nothing in its name makes that clear.
Because of that, a new system_percpu_wq has been added and all the system_wq
users updated accordingly.

system_wq will be removed in a future release cycle.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari at suse.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c | 2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/init.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c
index b9098a7331b1..95764b82da39 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/init.c
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ int mt7921_register_device(struct mt792x_dev *dev)
 	dev->mphy.hw->wiphy->available_antennas_rx = dev->mphy.chainmask;
 	dev->mphy.hw->wiphy->available_antennas_tx = dev->mphy.chainmask;
 
-	queue_work(system_wq, &dev->init_work);
+	queue_work(system_percpu_wq, &dev->init_work);
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/init.c
index d7d5afe365ed..e33ab4849e8a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/init.c
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ int mt7925_register_device(struct mt792x_dev *dev)
 	dev->mphy.hw->wiphy->available_antennas_rx = dev->mphy.chainmask;
 	dev->mphy.hw->wiphy->available_antennas_tx = dev->mphy.chainmask;
 
-	queue_work(system_wq, &dev->init_work);
+	queue_work(system_percpu_wq, &dev->init_work);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.51.0




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