Re: [PATCH 16/32] scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert toalloc_workqueue()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Mike.

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:41:22PM -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 04:25 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >usually necessary.  The queue of pending works tend to be short and
> >consumed pretty fast.
> 
> What if we want to do something that could take a while, like doing
> recovery of a device/transport (so you have to send resets and
> logouts/logins and wait for the results but they could take a while
> if they timeout), should we be using something other than a
> workqueue so it does not interfere with other users?

As long as you don't use ordered workqueue, it wouldn't be a problem.
The max concurrency is determined by @max_active parameter to
alloc_workqueue() and workqueue will try to provide concurrency upto
the limit on demand as long as resources are available.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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