Re: [PATCH] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Sep 24 2012 - 14:28:32 EST


Hello,

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:24:37PM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Should have looked through the source. Understand now.
> Just one quick question, should I create my own workqueue or use
> schedule_work? if I use the later and my work function sleeps, will it
> harmfully affect other users of this function?

If memstick can be in memory reclaim path (most block devices are),
you would want to create a dedicated workqueue w/ rescuer. For
details, please read Documentation/workqueue.txt.

Thanks.

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tejun
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