netdev - Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:52:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhaktipriya96@...il.com
Cc:	santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, tj@...nel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	rds-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue

From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 01:03:45 +0530

> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
> 
> Since the driver is infiniband which can be used as block device and the
> workqueue seems involved in regular operation of the device, so a
> dedicated workqueue has been used  with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set to guarantee
> forward progress under memory pressure.
> Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.