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fm10k: Remove create_workqueue
authorBhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:40:09 +0000 (21:10 +0530)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Sun, 26 Feb 2017 06:04:15 +0000 (22:04 -0800)
commit7adadf2fb9adf78418b6617ddaf89a3b081528b6
tree734d3ad71be58bf5d39db803d106691785869e0b
parent6b55fba07c823a84abc06fcde0b9fcf1dbadb5b1
fm10k: Remove create_workqueue

alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue().

A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workitem (viz
fm10k_service_task, which manages and runs other subtasks) is involved in
normal device operation and requires forward progress under memory
pressure.

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.

Since network devices may be used in memory reclaim path,
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set to guarantee forward progress.

flush_workqueue is unnecessary since destroy_workqueue() itself calls
drain_workqueue() which flushes repeatedly till the workqueue
becomes empty. Hence the call to flush_workqueue() has been dropped.

Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Orabug: 25394529
(cherry picked from commit 0a38c17a21a0965b4853211afa1d3e85428e6170)
Signed-off-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c