linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Workqueue: replace system wq and change alloc

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Message-ID: <CAAofZF4+GsCwF=1uFYeyxtPn5aenCFU2ztyGcsYJL_DTvHZsHw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:44:31 +0200
From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@...e.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, 
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Workqueue: replace system wq and change
 alloc_workqueue callers

> NVM, if Christian can apply for all filesystems, that's better.
>
> > And I guess it would be the same for drivers, eg drivers/net/
>
> I think net should be fine with wider scope patches, actually. It's mostly
> about laying things out for respective subsys maintainers so that it's
> easier for them to take actions.

Perfect, thank you!

Anyhow, I think the easiest one is MM. From the 2 patches in the
series, 1 were only comments changes (the new wq name), and the other
had small code changs..

Thank you!

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 10:41:01AM +0200, Marco Crivellari wrote:
> > I'm not sure I have clearly understood what you mean here:
> >
> > > e.g. Network flows through the same tree but different
> > > filesystems often have their own trees.
> >
> > With this, you mean also distinguish between e.g.  fs/ext4/  fs/etx2/
> > and fs/btrfs/ etc?
> > So if it is the case, in the example above, it means 3 different series.
> > Prefixed like this, I imagine: "workqueue: btrfs: ....".
>
> NVM, if Christian can apply for all filesystems, that's better.
>
> > And I guess it would be the same for drivers, eg drivers/net/
>
> I think net should be fine with wider scope patches, actually. It's mostly
> about laying things out for respective subsys maintainers so that it's
> easier for them to take actions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun



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