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    device core: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue · 2c507e46
    Bhaktipriya Shridhar authored
    The workqueue "deferred_wq" queues a single work item
    &deferred_probe_work and hence doesn't require ordering.
    It is involved in probing devices and is not being used on a memory
    reclaim path. Hence, it has been converted to use system_wq.
    
    System workqueues have been able to handle high level of concurrency
    for a long time now and hence it's not required to have a singlethreaded
    workqueue just to gain concurrency. Unlike a dedicated per-cpu workqueue
    created with create_singlethread_workqueue(), system_wq allows multiple
    work items to overlap executions even on the same CPU; however, a
    per-cpu workqueue doesn't have any CPU locality or global ordering
    guarantee unless the target CPU is explicitly specified and thus the
    increase of local concurrency shouldn't make any difference.
    
    The work item has been flushed in driver_probe_done() to ensure that
    there are no pending tasks while disconnecting the driver.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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