linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: pegasus: Remove deprecated create_singlethread

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Message-ID: <E774CB24-BD0A-41AE-B414-FBC8BFD5447E@mip-labs.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:27:51 +0300
From:   Petko Manolov <petkan@...-labs.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        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 August 31, 2016 5:23:05 PM GMT+03:00, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>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.


Acked-by: Petko Manolov <petkan@...-labs.com>


cheers,
Petko