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Date:	Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:17:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhaktipriya96@...il.com
Cc:	derek.chickles@...iumnetworks.com,
	satananda.burla@...iumnetworks.com,
	felix.manlunas@...iumnetworks.com,
	raghu.vatsavayi@...iumnetworks.com, tj@...nel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: cavium: liquidio: response_manager:
 Remove create_workqueue

From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 20:21:40 +0530

> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
> 
> A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workitem viz
> (&cwq->wk.work which maps to oct_poll_req_completion) is involved
> in normal device operation. WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to guarantee
> forward progress under memory pressure, which is a requirement here.
> Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary.
> 
> flush_workqueue is unnecessary since destroy_workqueue() itself calls
> drain_workqueue() which flushes repeatedly till the workqueue
> becomes empty. Hence the call to flush_workqueue() has been dropped.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>

Applied.

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