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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache: Remove deprecated create_workqueue
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:03:33 -0600
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On 06/11/2016 04:52 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:57:19AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
>> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
>>
>> Dedicated workqueues have been used since bcache_wq and moving_gc_wq
>> are workqueues for writes and are being used on a memory reclaim path.
>> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to ensure 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@gmail.com>
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Added to 4.8, thanks.

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Jens Axboe