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Message-ID: <1287508926.27343.299.camel@chromite.mv.qlogic.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:22:06 -0700
From: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@...gic.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC: Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>,
Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.6.36-rc7] infiniband: update workqueue usage
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 08:24 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> * qib_cq_wq is a separate singlethread workqueue. Does the queue
> require strict single thread execution ordering? IOW, does each
> work have to be executed in the exact queued order and no two works
> should execute in parallel? Or was the singlethreadedness chosen
> just to reduce the number of workers?
The work functions need to be called in-order and single threaded
or memory will be freed multiple times and other "bad things".
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