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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 memstick: support for legacy sony memsticks
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:02:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120925180235.GC16296@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348562326-10462-1-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  8:38 [PATCH v2 memstick: support for legacy sony memsticks Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-25  8:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] scatterlist: add sg_nents Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-25  8:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-25 18:25   ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-25 19:26     ` Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-25 19:38       ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-25 20:24         ` Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-25 18:02 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-09-25 19:34   ` [PATCH v2 memstick: support for legacy sony memsticks Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-25 19:40     ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-25 20:13       ` Maxim Levitsky

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