Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:47:44 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: dvm: use alloc_ordered_workqueue() |
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:19:21AM +0800, 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 supposed to free > memory.
I think "not depended during memory reclaim" probalby is a better way to describe it.
> Signed-off-by: Eva Rachel Retuya <eraretuya@gmail.com>
But other than that,
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
-- tejun
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