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Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue

From Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue
Date 2016-06-07 22:40 +0200
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Hi,

On 6/7/2016 12:33 PM, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> 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@gmail.com>
> ---
Looks fine.
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>

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[PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com> - 2016-06-07 21:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> - 2016-06-07 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-06-11 08:00 +0200

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