[rds-devel] [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com
Tue Jun 7 13:31:30 PDT 2016


Hi,

On 6/7/2016 12:33 PM, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> 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 <bhaktipriya96 at gmail.com>
> ---
Looks fine.
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com>



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