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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-10-11 15:12:27 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-10-11 15:20:26 +0200
commit6370a6ad3b53df90b4700977f7718118a2cd524a (patch)
tree2d1f45a19e66329813ce133b18f920d8c450b0c0 /drivers
parent30310045dd20a286cf3800f063f79b468e132fb1 (diff)
workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag
Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward progress. This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim workqueues can be made highpri. This patch doesn't introduce any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/libata-sff.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
index e30c537cce3..f5296bb19ec 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
@@ -3335,7 +3335,7 @@ void ata_sff_port_init(struct ata_port *ap)
int __init ata_sff_init(void)
{
- ata_sff_wq = alloc_workqueue("ata_sff", WQ_RESCUER, WQ_MAX_ACTIVE);
+ ata_sff_wq = alloc_workqueue("ata_sff", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, WQ_MAX_ACTIVE);
if (!ata_sff_wq)
return -ENOMEM;