[PATCH V2] scsi: storvsc: Allow only one remove lun work item to be issued per lun

Cathy Avery cavery at redhat.com
Tue Oct 31 12:31:15 UTC 2017


On 10/31/2017 08:24 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>> If you use alloc_ordered_workqueue directly instead of
>>> create_singlethread_workqueue you can pass a format string and don't
>>> need the separate allocation.
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure if Tejun is fine with using __WQ_LEGACY directly..
>> The only thing that flag does is exempting the workqueue from possible
>> flush deadlock check as we don't know whether WQ_MEM_RECLAIM on a
>> legacy workqueue is intentional.  There's no reason to add it when
>> converting to alloc_ordered_workqueue().  Just decide whether it needs
>> forward progress guarantee and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM if so.
> Cathy?
>

Sorry for the delay. Long was working on a similar problem and we needed 
to add a couple of extra patches. I was thinking of sending all three in 
series but I can send the V3 of this now and follow up with the 
additional patches. Does that make sense?


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