Re: [PATCH] dm-bufio: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

From	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] dm-bufio: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date	2016-08-31 16:30 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:19:11PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> The workqueue "dm_bufio_wq" queues a single work item &dm_bufio_work 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 since md / dm are block multi disk
> drivers and require forward progress under memory pressure.
> 
> Since there are 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] dm-bufio: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 18:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] dm-bufio: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-08-31 16:30 +0200

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