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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:45:33 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/32] scsi/ibmvstgt: use system_wq instead of vtgtd workqueue
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> The target driver is not in the memory reclaim path and doesn't need a
> dedicated workqueue.  Drop vtgtd and use system_wq instead.  The used
> work item is sync flushed on removal.

[ ... ]

Hi Tejun,

No matter which storage target will go upstream, I'm afraid that this
patch will conflict with it. See e.g.
http://dchs.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg49105.html.

Bart.