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

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Message-ID: <575CC2F5.2030407@fb.com>
Date:	Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:03:33 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
CC:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
	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 06/11/2016 04:52 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 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>

Added to 4.8, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe