netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: pegasus: Remove deprecated create_singlethread

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Message-Id: <20160901.164240.287180419520196259.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:42:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bhaktipriya96@...il.com
Cc:     petkan@...leusys.com, tj@...nel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pegasus: Remove deprecated
 create_singlethread_workqueue

From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:02:47 +0530

> 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>

Applied.