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scsi: scsi_transport_iscsi: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq

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 consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the
API.

system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.

Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be
used.

The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251031095643.74246-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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Marco Crivellari and committed by
Martin K. Petersen
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drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
··· 3961 3961 list_del_init(&session->sess_list); 3962 3962 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sesslock, flags); 3963 3963 3964 - queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &session->destroy_work); 3964 + queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &session->destroy_work); 3965 3965 } 3966 3966 break; 3967 3967 case ISCSI_UEVENT_UNBIND_SESSION: