Re: [PATCH] RDS: IB: Remove deprecated create_workqueue

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Jun 11 2016 - 01:52:47 EST


From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 01:03:45 +0530

> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
>
> Since the driver is infiniband which can be used as block device and the
> workqueue seems involved in regular operation of the device, so a
> dedicated workqueue has been used with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set to guarantee
> forward progress under memory pressure.
> Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.