The patch titled Subject: fs/ocfs2/dlm: remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-ocfs2-dlm-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-ocfs2-dlm-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-ocfs2-dlm-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/ocfs2/dlm: remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue() The workqueue "dlm_worker" queues a single work item &dlm->dispatched_work and thus it doesn't require execution ordering. Hence, alloc_workqueue has been used to replace the deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue instance. The WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag has been set to ensure forward progress under memory pressure. Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency limit is unnecessary here. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b5ad8d6688effe1a9ddb2bc2082d26fbbe00302.1472590094.git.bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c~fs-ocfs2-dlm-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c~fs-ocfs2-dlm-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c @@ -1904,7 +1904,7 @@ static int dlm_join_domain(struct dlm_ct } snprintf(wq_name, O2NM_MAX_NAME_LEN, "dlm_wq-%s", dlm->name); - dlm->dlm_worker = create_singlethread_workqueue(wq_name); + dlm->dlm_worker = alloc_workqueue(wq_name, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); if (!dlm->dlm_worker) { status = -ENOMEM; mlog_errno(status); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhaktipriya96@xxxxxxxxx are fs-ocfs2-dlmfs-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch fs-ocfs2-cluster-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch fs-ocfs2-super-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch fs-ocfs2-dlm-remove-deprecated-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html