Re: [PATCH] omapfb: omapfb-main: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sat Jul 02 2016 - 07:34:09 EST


On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:00:56PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> The workqueue auto_update_work is involved in auto updating mode for
> manual-update displays. omapfb driver uses a delayed work item to update
> the display at a constant rate.
>
> Since these long-running work items aren't involved in memory reclaim in
> any way, system_long_wq has been used.

Can you please explain why this is long-running?

Thanks.

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tejun