linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create

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Message-ID: <2a32db91-441d-7536-0c45-dc26c486d9fe@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2016 13:31:30 -0700
From:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:	Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue

Hi,

On 6/7/2016 12:33 PM, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
>
> Since the driver is infiniband which can be used as block device and the
> workqueue seems involved in regular operation of the device, so a
> dedicated workqueue has been used  with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set to guarantee
> forward progress under memory pressure.

> Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
> ---
Looks fine.
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>