On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:09:23PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote: > The workqueue "esd_wq" has only a single workitem(&md->esd_work) > and hence doesn't require ordering. Also, it is not being used on a > memory reclaim path. Hence, the singlethreaded workqueue has been > replaced with the use of system_wq. > > System workqueues have been able to handle high level of concurrency > for a long time now and hence it's not required to have a singlethreaded > workqueue just to gain concurrency. Unlike a dedicated per-cpu workqueue > created with create_singlethread_workqueue(), system_wq allows multiple > work items to overlap executions even on the same CPU; however, a > per-cpu workqueue doesn't have any CPU locality or global ordering > guarantee unless the target CPU is explicitly specified and thus the > increase of local concurrency shouldn't make any difference. > > mipid_esd_stop_check () calls cancel_delayed_work() in mipid_cleanup() > to ensure that there are no pending tasks while disconnecting the driver. > > 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-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
