Re: [PATCH v2] fs/nfsd/nfs4callback: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

[J. Bruce Fields]

Apologies, just cleaning out old mail and finding some I should have
responded to long ago:

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 02:23:48AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> The workqueue "callback_wq" queues a single work item &cb->cb_work per
> nfsd4_callback instance and thus, it doesn't require execution ordering.

What's "execution ordering"?

We definitely do depend on the fact that at most one of these is running
at a time.

--b.

> Hence, alloc_workqueue has been used to replace the
> deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue instance.

> 
> The WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag has not been set since this is an in-kernel nfs
> server and isn't involved in memory reclaim operations on the local
> host.
> 
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Changes in v2:
> 	- No change. Made this a separate patch (categorised based on
> 	  directories).
> 
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> index 7389cb1..a6611c6 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> @@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ static const struct rpc_call_ops nfsd4_cb_ops = {
> 
>  int nfsd4_create_callback_queue(void)
>  {
> -	callback_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("nfsd4_callbacks");
> +	callback_wq = alloc_workqueue("nfsd4_callbacks", 0, 0);
>  	if (!callback_wq)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	return 0;
> --
> 2.1.4