On Tuesday, June 07, 2016 09:13:51 AM Tejun Heo wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:45:40AM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote: > > alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue(). > > > > A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workqueue > > acpi_thermal_pm_queue with workitem &tz->thermal_check_work > > (maps to acpi_thermal_check_fn), is involved in thermal zone polling. > > Wallclock time is actually important and getting delayed in handling > > critical temperature event can actually lead to unnecessary hardware > > damage. So while this is not used during memory reclaim, we still want > > forward progress guarantee and be generally snappy in servicing it. > > Hence, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM and WQ_HIGHPRI have been used here. > > > > Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency > > limit is unnecessary here. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Patch applied, thanks!
