linux/virt/kvm
Bhaktipriya Shridhar 3706feacd0 KVM: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
The workqueue "irqfd_cleanup_wq" queues a single work item
&irqfd->shutdown and hence doesn't require ordering. It is a host-wide
workqueue for issuing deferred shutdown requests aggregated from all
vm* instances. It is not being used on a memory reclaim path.
Hence, it has been converted to use system_wq.
The work item has been flushed in kvm_irqfd_release().

The workqueue "wqueue" queues a single work item &timer->expired
and hence doesn't require ordering. Also, it 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.

Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-09-07 19:34:28 +02:00
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arm KVM: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue 2016-09-07 19:34:28 +02:00
async_pf.c Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-20 19:08:56 -07:00
async_pf.h KVM: fix checkpatch.pl errors in kvm/async_pf.h 2015-06-19 17:16:25 +02:00
coalesced_mmio.c KVM: move iodev.h from virt/kvm/ to include/kvm 2015-03-26 21:43:12 +00:00
coalesced_mmio.h KVM: make the declaration of functions within 80 characters 2015-09-14 18:43:19 +02:00
eventfd.c KVM: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue 2016-09-07 19:34:28 +02:00
irqchip.c KVM/ARM Changes for v4.8 - Take 2 2016-08-04 13:59:56 +02:00
Kconfig KVM: remove kvm_vcpu_compatible 2016-06-16 00:05:00 +02:00
kvm_main.c KVM: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue 2016-09-07 19:34:28 +02:00
vfio.c KVM: count number of assigned devices 2015-07-10 13:25:26 +02:00
vfio.h kvm: vfio: fix unregister kvm_device_ops of vfio 2014-10-24 13:30:47 +02:00