Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] fs/afs/rxrpc: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Aug 30 2016 - 18:15:53 EST


Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The workqueue "afs_async_calls" queues a single work item viz
> &call->async_work and hence it doesn't require execution ordering.
> ...
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.

There can be more than one single call and there's no fixed number.

> The workqueue "afs_lock_manager" queues a single work item
> &vnode->lock_work, and hence it doesn't require execution ordering.
> ...
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.

There may be more than one single vnode and there's no fixed number.

David