linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libertas_tf: Remove create

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:20:11 +0530
From:	Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libertas_tf: Remove create_workqueue

Ping!
Thanks,
Bhaktipriya


On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:38:53AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
>> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
>>
>> A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workitem (viz
>> &priv->cmd_work per priv, which maps to lbtf_cmd_work) is involved in
>> actual command processing and may be used on a memory reclaim path.
>> The workitems require forward progress under memory pressure and hence,
>> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set. 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