[media] hdpvr: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
authorBhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Sat, 2 Jul 2016 10:47:31 +0000 (07:47 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 18:02:57 +0000 (15:02 -0300)
commit5612e191ca1f88e16c48bb373d90d1508196aa95
tree38588187920b4e01a065981a6ea175536b3b3c15
parent0423ff9bd4193dd9fd4dd2ef1a6698fc80fa17ec
[media] hdpvr: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

The workqueue "workqueue" is involved in transmitting hdpvr buffers.
It has a single work item(&dev->worker) and hence doesn't require
ordering. Also, it is not being used on a memory reclaim 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.

Work item has been flushed in hdpvr_device_release() to ensure
that there are no pending tasks while disconnecting the driver.

Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-core.c
drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c
drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr.h