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The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply ordered execution. After NUMA affinity4c16bd327c("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues"), this is no longer true due to per-node worker pools. While the right way to create an ordered workqueue is alloc_ordered_workqueue(), the documentation has been misleading for a long time and people do use WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 for ordered workqueues which can lead to subtle bugs which are very difficult to trigger. It's unlikely that we'd see noticeable performance impact by enforcing ordering on WQ_UNBOUND / max_active == 1 workqueues. Let's automatically set __WQ_ORDERED for those workqueues. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reported-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com> Fixes:4c16bd327c("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
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