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    platform/surface: aggregator: Allow completion work-items to be executed in parallel · 539e0a7f
    Maximilian Luz authored
    Currently, event completion work-items are restricted to be run strictly
    in non-parallel fashion by the respective workqueue. However, this has
    lead to some problems:
    
    In some instances, the event notifier function called inside this
    completion workqueue takes a non-negligible amount of time to execute.
    One such example is the battery event handling code (surface_battery.c),
    which can result in a full battery information refresh, involving
    further synchronous communication with the EC inside the event handler.
    This is made worse if the communication fails spuriously, generally
    incurring a multi-second timeout.
    
    Since the event completions are run strictly non-parallel, this blocks
    other events from being propagated to the respective subsystems. This
    becomes especially noticeable for keyboard and touchpad input, which
    also funnel their events through this system. Here, users have reported
    occasional multi-second "freezes".
    
    Note, however, that the event handling system was never intended to run
    purely sequentially. Instead, we have one work struct per EC/SAM
    subsystem, processing the event queue for that subsystem. These work
    structs were intended to run in parallel, allowing sequential processing
    of work items for each subsystem but parallel processing of work items
    across subsystems.
    
    The only restriction to this is the way the workqueue is created.
    Therefore, replace create_workqueue() with alloc_workqueue() and do not
    restrict the maximum number of parallel work items to be executed on
    that queue, resolving any cross-subsystem blockage.
    
    Fixes: c167b9c7 ("platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem")
    Link: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/1026Signed-off-by: default avatarMaximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230525210110.2785470-1-luzmaximilian@gmail.comReviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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