linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Remove deprecated create_singlethread

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:58:32 +0900
From:	Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Cc:	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
	Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Remove deprecated
 create_singlethread_workqueue

On 02.07.2016 22:46, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 04:33:50PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
>> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue().
>>
>> A dedicated workqueue has been used since work items need to be flushed
>> as a group rather than individually.
>>
>> Since the flip_queue workqueue is involved in page-flipping and is not
>> being used on a memory reclaim path, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has not been set.
>>
>> Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
>> limit is unnecessary here.
> 
> What are the involved work items?

drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_display.c:radeon_flip_work_func()


> Is it safe to run them concurrently?

Concurrently with what exactly?


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