[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Remove compat workqueue.

Pravin Shelar pshelar at nicira.com
Mon Sep 9 21:26:41 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
>> OVS has its own workq implementation for coupe of reasons. first
>> was to avoid system freeze due to ovs-flow rehash softlockup.
>> We have moved out rehash from workq, So this problem does not exist.
>> second was related bugs in kernel workq implementation in pre-2.6.32
>> kernel. But we have dropped support for older kernel.
>> So there is no reason to keep ovs-workq around. Following patch
>> removes it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>
>
> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

Thanks.
I pushed patch to master.



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