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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:06:52 -0400 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/amd: Remove create_workqueue On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 01:58:30PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote: > alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue(). > > A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workitem (viz > &fault->work), is involved in IO page-fault handling. > WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to guarantee forward progress under memory > pressure, which is a requirement here. > Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency > limit is unnecessary. > > Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Thanks. -- tejun
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