On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:45:40AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote: > alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue(). > > A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workqueue > acpi_thermal_pm_queue with workitem &tz->thermal_check_work > (maps to acpi_thermal_check_fn), is involved in thermal zone polling. > Wallclock time is actually important and getting delayed in handling > critical temperature event can actually lead to unnecessary hardware > damage. So while this is not used during memory reclaim, we still want > forward progress guarantee and be generally snappy in servicing it. > Hence, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM and WQ_HIGHPRI have been used here. > > Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency > limit is unnecessary here. > > Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html