Re: [PATCH v2 memstick: support for legacy sony memsticks

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Sep 25 2012 - 14:02:31 EST


Hello,

> * Swithced to using a workqueue.
> Unfortunelly, I still see that workqueue items are executed in parallel
> I suspect that this happens if one work item sleeps. In this case I
> don't want other work items to run too. I fixed this with a mutex, and anyway
> it nice to have it to guaranteee this.

You can use alloc_ordered_workqueue("namefmt", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM). No
mutex needed for inter-work exclusion.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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