Re: [PATCH v3] iwlwifi: dvm: use alloc_ordered_workqueue()

From	"Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v3] iwlwifi: dvm: use alloc_ordered_workqueue()
Date	2016-03-23 09:40 +0100
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On 03/19/2016 07:15 AM, Eva Rachel Retuya wrote:
> Use alloc_ordered_workqueue() to allocate the workqueue instead of
> create_singlethread_workqueue() since the latter is deprecated and is scheduled
> for removal.
> 
> There are work items doing related operations that shouldn't be swapped when
> queued in a certain order hence preserve the strict execution ordering of a
> single threaded (ST) workqueue by switching to alloc_ordered_workqueue().
> 
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag is not needed since the worker is not depended
> during memory reclaim.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eva Rachel Retuya <eraretuya@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> ---


Applied - thanks.

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[PATCH v3] iwlwifi: dvm: use alloc_ordered_workqueue() Eva Rachel Retuya <eraretuya@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 06:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3] iwlwifi: dvm: use alloc_ordered_workqueue() "Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> - 2016-03-23 09:40 +0100

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