Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM / Runtime: Use alloc_workqueue() for creatingPM workqueue

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Rafael.

On 09/15/2010 09:56 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> I'm not sure about that WQ_RESCUER thing.  Can you please tell me what
> exactly it is for?

It's to guarantee forward progress for workqueues which process work
items which may be used to reclaim memory.  It reserves a rescue
worker thread to be used under memory pressure.  I finished workqueue
documentation a few days ago and sent pull request to Linus.

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/workqueue.txt;h=e4498a2872c37a0b3b156ddc7ad7135d030d224d;hb=c54fce6eff197d9c57c97afbf6c9722ce434fc8f

So, for pm_wq, there's no reason to use WQ_RESUER.
alloc_workqueue("pm", WQ_FREEZEABLE, 0) should do it.

Thanks for doing it.

-- 
tejun
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