Re: [PATCH v2.6.36-rc7] infiniband: update workqueue usage

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 10/19/2010 07:22 PM, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 08:24 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
>> * qib_cq_wq is a separate singlethread workqueue.  Does the queue
>>   require strict single thread execution ordering?  IOW, does each
>>   work have to be executed in the exact queued order and no two works
>>   should execute in parallel?  Or was the singlethreadedness chosen
>>   just to reduce the number of workers?
> 
> The work functions need to be called in-order and single threaded
> or memory will be freed multiple times and other "bad things".

I see, so they'll need to be converted to alloc_ordered_workqueue()
once -rc1 merge window opens up.  I'll follow up with the conversion.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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