linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firewire: sbp2: parallelize login/inquiry, reconnect, and shutdown

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Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:46:18 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
CC:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: sbp2: parallelize login/inquiry, reconnect,
 and shutdown

Hello,

On 10/12/2010 06:15 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Tejun Hejo wrote:
>> It doesn't have to be swap.  Having a rw filesystem mounted is enough
>> to be in the memory reclaim path.
> 
> Oh, alright.
> 
> ...
>> Yes, it would definitely be better to put them in a workqueue with
>> WQ_RESCUER (or the new WQ_MEM_RECLAIM).
> 
> A pro pos WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, is wq.git#for-next stable history which I can pull
> into a topic branch at linux1394-2.6.git?  (Or I wait with this stuff until
> after .37-rc1.)

For now using WQ_RESCUER should do.  We can update it to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM after the trees are merged (both flags have the same
meaning now so nothing would break).

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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