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

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Jun 10 22:52:40 PDT 2016


From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96 at gmail.com>
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 <bhaktipriya96 at gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.



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