android: binder: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
authorBhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:46:24 +0000 (22:16 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:00:45 +0000 (17:00 +0200)
commit1beba52d46f039a24f31cf5717c239c89a9d4e6f
tree6bf2b8e0615699328bbc621d9128d85e2fc7732e
parent6a9aabb107c65ecb6f08b010853f5571d781ba5a
android: binder: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

The workqueue is being used to run deferred work for the android binder.

The "binder_deferred_workqueue" queues only a single work item and hence
does not require ordering. Also, this workqueue is not being used on a
memory recliam path. Hence, the singlethreaded workqueue has been
replaced with the use of 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.

Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/android/binder.c