Re: [PATCH] bcache: Remove deprecated create_workqueue

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sat Jun 11 2016 - 22:04:07 EST


On 06/11/2016 04:52 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:57:19AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().

Dedicated workqueues have been used since bcache_wq and moving_gc_wq
are workqueues for writes and are being used on a memory reclaim path.
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to ensure 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@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Added to 4.8, thanks.

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Jens Axboe