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@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. -- tejun _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
