On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:20:41PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: ... > 1st create_freezable_workqueue("vballoon_wq"); All create_*workqueue() interfaces are deprecated. Please don't create new usages. They map to alloc_*workqueue() anyway. > 2nd alloc_workqueue("vballoon_wq", WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); Is WQ_MEM_RECLAIM necessary here? Does virtio_balloon depended upon from memory allocation path? ... > The 2nd way to create the workqueue has about the same results as kthread. > This is why it is used in the patch. You're testing WQ_UNBOUND vs. !WQ_UNBOUND and yes for most use cases, !WQ_UNBOUND will be more efficient. The right thing to do in most cases is using alloc_workqueue() w/ as minimum extra flags as possible. Thanks! -- tejun _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization