[PATCH] drm/qxl: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue

[Tejun Heo]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 04:32:09PM +0530, Bhaktipriya Shridhar wrote:
> System workqueues have been able to handle high level of concurrency
> for a long time now and there's no reason to use dedicated workqueues
> just to gain concurrency. Since the workqueue in the QXL graphics device
> driver is involved in freeing and processing the release ring
> (workitem &qdev->gc_workqxl, maps to gc_work which calls
> qxl_garbage_collect) and is not being used on a memory reclaim path,
> dedicated gc_queue has been replaced with the use of system_wq.
> 
> Unlike a dedicated per-cpu workqueue created with create_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 guarantees unless the target CPU is
> explicitly specified and thus the increase of local concurrency
> shouldn't make any difference.
> 
> flush_work() has been called in qxl_device_fini() to ensure that there
> are no pending tasks while disconnecting the driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96 at gmail.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>

Thanks.

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tejun