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Message-ID: <26365.1472595343@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:15:43 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] fs/afs/rxrpc: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com> wrote:
> The workqueue "afs_async_calls" queues a single work item viz
> &call->async_work and hence it doesn't require execution ordering.
> ...
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
There can be more than one single call and there's no fixed number.
> The workqueue "afs_lock_manager" queues a single work item
> &vnode->lock_work, and hence it doesn't require execution ordering.
> ...
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
There may be more than one single vnode and there's no fixed number.
David
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