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Message-ID: <20160831142305.GI12660@htj.duckdns.org>
Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:23:05 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Cc:     Petko Manolov <petkan@...leusys.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pegasus: Remove deprecated
 create_singlethread_workqueue

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:02:47PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> The workqueue "pegasus_workqueue" queues a single work item per pegasus
> instance and hence it doesn't require execution ordering. Hence,
> alloc_workqueue has been used to replace the deprecated
> create_singlethread_workqueue instance.
> 
> The WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag has been set to ensure forward progress under
> memory pressure since it's a network driver.
> 
> Since there are 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

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