[PATCH v2 2/4] fs/afs/rxrpc: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Tue Aug 30 15:15:43 PDT 2016


Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The workqueue "afs_async_calls" queues a single work item viz
> &call->async_work and hence it doesn't require execution ordering.
> ...
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.

There can be more than one single call and there's no fixed number.

> The workqueue "afs_lock_manager" queues a single work item
> &vnode->lock_work, and hence it doesn't require execution ordering.
> ...
> Since there are fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency
> limit is unnecessary here.

There may be more than one single vnode and there's no fixed number.

David



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