linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bcache: Remove deprecated create

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Message-ID: <20160611225202.GD31708@htj.duckdns.org>
Date:	Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:52:35 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Cc:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
	Eric Wheeler <git@...ux.ewheeler.net>,
	Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache: Remove deprecated create_workqueue

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:57:19AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
> 
> Dedicated workqueues have been used since bcache_wq and moving_gc_wq
> are workqueues for writes and are being used on a memory reclaim path.
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to ensure 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>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun