netdev - Re: libertas_tf: Remove create

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jun 2016 15:42:58 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libertas_tf: Remove create_workqueue

Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com> wrote:
> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
> 
> A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workitem (viz
> &priv->cmd_work per priv, which maps to lbtf_cmd_work) is involved in
> actual command processing and may be used on a memory reclaim path.
> The workitems require forward progress under memory pressure and hence,
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set. Since there are only a fixed number of work
> items, explicit concurrency limit is unnecessary here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks, 1 patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git:

452fa86e9806 libertas_tf: Remove create_workqueue

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