Hello,
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 01:30:05AM +0300, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > Are the workitems being used on a memory reclaim path?
>
> do you mean they need to allocate memory ?
It's a bit convoluted. A workqueue needs WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag to be
guaranteed forward progress under memory pressure,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Bhaktipriya Shridhar
wrote:
> alloc_ordered_workqueue() with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set replaces
> deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue(). This is the identity
> conversion.
>
> A dedicated workqueue has been used since mlx5e workqueue was created to
> handle all mlx5e
