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Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

From Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date 2016-07-27 21:30 +0200
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Hello, Alan.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 02:54:51PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Hmm... I didn't know the whole USB stack could operate without
> > allocating memory.  Does usb stack have mempools and stuff all the way
> > through?
> 
> No -- the USB stack does need to allocate memory in order to operate.  
> But it is careful to use GFP_NOIO or GFP_ATOMIC for allocations that
> might be on the block-device path.

Hmm... That doesn't really make them dependable during memory reclaim.
What happens when those allocations fail?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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[RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 11:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-07-27 11:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-07-27 20:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-07-27 21:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-07-27 21:30 +0200
          Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-07-27 22:50 +0200
            Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-07-29 15:20 +0200
              Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-01 16:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-08-01 16:30 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-08-01 21:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-01 21:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-08-02 10:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-02 10:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-08-02 12:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-02 14:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-08-02 15:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-08-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-02 23:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-02 16:00 +0200
                Re: [RFC] usb: host: u132-hcd: Remove deprecated  create_singlethread_workqueue Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-08-02 19:20 +0200

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