linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390/qeth: Remove redundant 'flush

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Message-ID: <20220114182556.373a159b@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:25:56 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Xu Wang <vulab@...as.ac.cn>, wenjia@...ux.ibm.com,
        hca@...ux.ibm.com, gor@...ux.ibm.com, borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com,
        agordeev@...ux.ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/qeth: Remove redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls

On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:58:38 +0100 Alexandra Winter wrote:
> On 14.01.22 09:42, Xu Wang wrote:
> > 'destroy_workqueue()' already drains the queue before destroying it, so
> > there is no need to flush it explicitly.
> > 
> > Remove the redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Wang <vulab@...as.ac.cn>
> > ---
> >  drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
> > index 9251ad276ee8..d2f422a9a4f7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
> > @@ -1961,7 +1961,6 @@ static void qeth_l3_remove_device(struct ccwgroup_device *cgdev)
> >  	if (card->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
> >  		unregister_netdev(card->dev);
> >  
> > -	flush_workqueue(card->cmd_wq);
> >  	destroy_workqueue(card->cmd_wq);
> >  	qeth_l3_clear_ip_htable(card, 0);
> >  	qeth_l3_clear_ipato_list(card);  
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out!
> 
> IMO, this can go to net-next as it is not a fix, but removes redundancy.

Agreed.

> Acked-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@...ux.ibm.com>

Please keep Alexandra's ack and repost in ~1.5 week -- after 5.17-rc1
is tagged.