Re: [PATCH] firewire: core: use non-reentrant workqueue where necessary

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Stefan.

On 10/10/2010 04:55 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:
...
> Therefore queue all of these types of work items on system_nrt_wq
> instead of system_wq.  The former guarantees non-reentrance across all
> CPUs, the latter only on the CPU which schedules a work item.
> 
> As a bonus, other subsystems which flush system_wq won't be held up if
> the firewire subsystem spends a lot of time in an extraordinarily long
> fw_device.work.

Awesome, thanks a lot for doing this.  BTW, I'm in the process of
hunting down all flush_scheduled_work() users and plan to remove
workqueue flushing capability from all system workqueues.

> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

For the workqueue part,

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

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tejun
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