Re: [PATCH v3] iwlwifi: dvm: use alloc_ordered_workqueue()

From: Grumbach, Emmanuel
Date: Wed Mar 23 2016 - 04:33:58 EST




On 03/19/2016 07:15 AM, Eva Rachel Retuya wrote:
> Use alloc_ordered_workqueue() to allocate the workqueue instead of
> create_singlethread_workqueue() since the latter is deprecated and is scheduled
> for removal.
>
> There are work items doing related operations that shouldn't be swapped when
> queued in a certain order hence preserve the strict execution ordering of a
> single threaded (ST) workqueue by switching to alloc_ordered_workqueue().
>
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag is not needed since the worker is not depended
> during memory reclaim.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eva Rachel Retuya <eraretuya@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---


Applied - thanks.