From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cfg80211: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:21:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473672100.4201.15.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160830190507.GA11493@Karyakshetra> (sfid-20160830_210511_814586_97B3779A)
On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 00:35 +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> The workqueue "cfg80211_wq" is involved in cleanup, scan and event
> related
> works. It queues multiple work items &rdev->event_work,
> &rdev->dfs_update_channels_wk,
> &wiphy_to_rdev(request->wiphy)->scan_done_wk,
> &wiphy_to_rdev(wiphy)->sched_scan_results_wk, which require strict
> execution ordering.
> Hence, an ordered dedicated workqueue has been used.
>
> Since it's a wireless driver, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to ensure
> forward progress under memory pressure.
>
Applied, thanks.
johannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-30 19:05 [PATCH v2] cfg80211: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue Bhaktipriya Shridhar
2016-08-31 14:26 ` Tejun Heo
2016-09-12 9:21 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
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