Re: [PATCH v2] gpu: drm: amd: amdkfd: Remove create_workqueue()

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:07:33AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().
> 
> create_workqueue has been replaced with alloc_workqueue with max_active
> as 0 since there is no need for throttling the number of active work items.
> 
> WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has not been set to because kfd_process_wq will not be used in
> memory reclaim path.
> 
> kfd_process_wq is used for delay destruction. A work item embedded in
> kfd_process gets queued to kfd_process_wq and when it executes it
> destroys and frees the containing kfd_process and thus itself.
> 
> This requires a dedicated workqueue because a work item once queued, may
> get freed at any point of time and any external entity cannot
> flush the work item. So, in order to wait for such a work item,
> it needs to be put on a dedicated workqueue.
> 
> kfd_module_exit() calls kfd_process_destroy_wq which ensures that all
> pending work items are finished before the module is removed.
> 
> flush_workqueue is unnecessary since destroy_workqueue() itself calls
> drain_workqueue() which flushes repeatedly till the workqueue becomes empty.
> 
> Hence flush_workqueue has been removed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun