This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: octeontx2: Use alloc_ordered_workqueue() to create ordered workqueues
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-octeontx2-use-alloc_ordered_workqueue-to-create-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 42147477307b22b03f93735020a1ce118697dd5f
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon May 8 13:52:28 2023 -1000
net: octeontx2: Use alloc_ordered_workqueue() to create ordered workqueues
[ Upstream commit 289f97467480266f9bd8cac7f1e05a478d523f79 ]
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 ncessary, 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Srujana Challa <schalla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geetha sowjanya <gakula@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Stable-dep-of: 7558ce0d974c ("octeontx2-pf: Use default max_active works instead of one")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
index 59e6442ddf4a4..a7965b457bee9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu.c
@@ -3055,9 +3055,8 @@ static int rvu_flr_init(struct rvu *rvu)
cfg | BIT_ULL(22));
}
- rvu->flr_wq = alloc_workqueue("rvu_afpf_flr",
- WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
- 1);
+ rvu->flr_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("rvu_afpf_flr",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
if (!rvu->flr_wq)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
index 05ee55022b92c..3f044b161e8bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
@@ -272,8 +272,7 @@ static int otx2_pf_flr_init(struct otx2_nic *pf, int num_vfs)
{
int vf;
- pf->flr_wq = alloc_workqueue("otx2_pf_flr_wq",
- WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI, 1);
+ pf->flr_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("otx2_pf_flr_wq", WQ_HIGHPRI);
if (!pf->flr_wq)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -584,9 +583,8 @@ static int otx2_pfvf_mbox_init(struct otx2_nic *pf, int numvfs)
if (!pf->mbox_pfvf)
return -ENOMEM;
- pf->mbox_pfvf_wq = alloc_workqueue("otx2_pfvf_mailbox",
- WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI |
- WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
+ pf->mbox_pfvf_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("otx2_pfvf_mailbox",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
if (!pf->mbox_pfvf_wq)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1088,9 +1086,8 @@ static int otx2_pfaf_mbox_init(struct otx2_nic *pf)
int err;
mbox->pfvf = pf;
- pf->mbox_wq = alloc_workqueue("otx2_pfaf_mailbox",
- WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI |
- WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
+ pf->mbox_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("otx2_pfaf_mailbox",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
if (!pf->mbox_wq)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_vf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_vf.c
index 68fef947ccced..dcb8190de2407 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_vf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_vf.c
@@ -308,9 +308,8 @@ static int otx2vf_vfaf_mbox_init(struct otx2_nic *vf)
int err;
mbox->pfvf = vf;
- vf->mbox_wq = alloc_workqueue("otx2_vfaf_mailbox",
- WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI |
- WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
+ vf->mbox_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("otx2_vfaf_mailbox",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
if (!vf->mbox_wq)
return -ENOMEM;
