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Re: [PATCH] acpi: thermal: Remove create_workqueue

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On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:45:40AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
> 
> A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workqueue
> acpi_thermal_pm_queue with workitem &tz->thermal_check_work
> (maps to acpi_thermal_check_fn), is involved in thermal zone polling.
> Wallclock time is actually important and getting delayed in handling
> critical temperature event can actually lead to unnecessary hardware
> damage. So while this is not used during memory reclaim, we still want
> forward progress guarantee and be generally snappy in servicing it.
> Hence, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM and WQ_HIGHPRI have been used here.
> 
> Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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[PATCH] acpi: thermal: Remove create_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 05:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] acpi: thermal: Remove create_workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-06-07 16:20 +0200

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