From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhaktipriya96@gmail.com
Cc: lars.persson@axis.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dwc_eth_qos: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 22:27:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160717.222758.2271369406708475258.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160716082328.GA7254@Karyakshetra>
From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 13:53:28 +0530
> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue().
>
> A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workitem viz
> lp->txtimeout_reinit is involved in reinitialization if a TX timeout
> occurs, which is necessary to guarantee forward progress in packet
> processing. As a network device can be used during memory reclaim, the
> workqueue needs forward progress guarantee under memory pressure.
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to ensure this.
>
> Since there is only a single work item, explicit concurrency limit is
> unnecessary here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 5:28 UTC|newest]
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2016-07-16 8:23 [PATCH] dwc_eth_qos: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-07-18 5:27 ` David Miller [this message]
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