Re: [PATCH] dm-bufio: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Aug 31 2016 - 10:21:57 EST


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:19:11PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> The workqueue "dm_bufio_wq" queues a single work item &dm_bufio_work and
> hence it doesn't require execution ordering. Hence, alloc_workqueue has
> been used to replace the deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue instance.
>
> The WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag has been set since md / dm are block multi disk
> drivers and require forward progress under memory pressure.
>
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun