From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753352AbcIAXmn (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2016 19:42:43 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:40846 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751252AbcIAXml (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Sep 2016 19:42:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20160901.164240.287180419520196259.davem@davemloft.net> To: bhaktipriya96@gmail.com Cc: petkan@nucleusys.com, tj@kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: pegasus: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20160830163247.GA25925@Karyakshetra> References: <20160830163247.GA25925@Karyakshetra> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:02:47 +0530 > The workqueue "pegasus_workqueue" queues a single work item per pegasus > instance 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 to ensure forward progress under > memory pressure since it's a network driver. > > Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency > limit is unnecessary here. > > Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar Applied.