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

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:52:21PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Bruce.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:39:11PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If there can be multiple cb's and thus cb->cb_work's per callback_wq,
> it'd need explicit ordering.  Is that the case?

Yes, there can be multiple cb_work's.

--b.