Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM / Runtime: Use alloc_workqueue() for creating PM workqueue

Hello, Rafael.

On 09/15/2010 09:56 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

I'm not sure about that WQ_RESCUER thing.  Can you please tell me what
exactly it is for?

It's to guarantee forward progress for workqueues which process work
items which may be used to reclaim memory.  It reserves a rescue
worker thread to be used under memory pressure.  I finished workqueue
documentation a few days ago and sent pull request to Linus.

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/workqueue.txt;h=e4498a2872c37a0b3b156ddc7ad7135d030d224d;hb=c54fce6eff197d9c57c97afbf6c9722ce434fc8f

So, for pm_wq, there's no reason to use WQ_RESUER.
alloc_workqueue("pm", WQ_FREEZEABLE, 0) should do it.

Thanks for doing it.

-- 
tejun