Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 09:36:51AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> +static struct workqueue_struct *floppy_wq;
> +
>  static struct floppy_struct *_floppy = floppy_type;
>  static unsigned char current_drive;
>  static long current_count_sectors;
> @@ -629,16 +631,15 @@ static inline void set_debugt(void) { }
>  static inline void debugt(const char *func, const char *msg) { }
>  #endif /* DEBUGT */
>  
> -typedef void (*timeout_fn)(unsigned long);
> -static DEFINE_TIMER(fd_timeout, floppy_shutdown, 0, 0);
>  
> +static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(fd_timeout, floppy_shutdown);
>  static const char *timeout_message;

There's no need to create a separate workqueue for this.  There's just
single work item which shouldn't be executed concurrently on different
CPUs, right?  Just queueing the work item onto system_nrt_wq should be
enough.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun