Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 09:59:46PM CEST, bhaktipriy...@gmail.com wrote: >alloc_workqueue replaces deprecated create_workqueue(). > >A dedicated workqueue has been used since the workqueue >mlxsw_wq is used for FDB notif. processing with workitems that are >involved in normal device operation && because it's a network device >which can be depended upon during memory reclaim. > >Workitems &trans->timeout_dw and &mlxsw_sp->fdb_notify.dw, >map to mlxsw_sp_fdb_notify_work (processes FDB notifications from the >underlying device and resolves the netdev to which the entry points to >and notifies the bridge using the switchdev notifier) and >mlxsw_emad_trans_timeout_work (provides async EMAD register access) >respectively. They require forward progress under memory pressure and >hence, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM has been set. > >Since there are only a fixed number of work items, explicit concurrency >limit is unnecessary here. > >Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriy...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
