From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752085AbcFKFwo (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2016 01:52:44 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:35066 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751416AbcFKFwm (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jun 2016 01:52:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:52:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20160610.225240.262740153012374516.davem@davemloft.net> To: bhaktipriya96@gmail.com Cc: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com, tj@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20160607193345.GA10562@Karyakshetra> References: <20160607193345.GA10562@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]); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 01:03:45 +0530 > alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue(). > > Since the driver is infiniband which can be used as block device and the > workqueue seems involved in regular operation of the device, so a > dedicated workqueue has been used with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set to guarantee > forward progress under memory pressure. > Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency > limit is unnecessary here. > > Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar Applied, thanks.