From 81dcaf6516d8bbd75b894862c8ae7bba04380cfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:17:35 +0200 Subject: workqueue: implement alloc_ordered_workqueue() alloc_ordered_workqueue() creates a workqueue which processes each work itemp one by one in the queued order. This will be used to replace create_freezeable_workqueue() and create_singlethread_workqueue(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index 25e02c941bac..07c48925a8fc 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -306,6 +306,24 @@ __alloc_workqueue_key(const char *name, unsigned int flags, int max_active, __alloc_workqueue_key((name), (flags), (max_active), NULL, NULL) #endif +/** + * alloc_ordered_workqueue - allocate an ordered workqueue + * @name: name of the workqueue + * @flags: WQ_* flags (only WQ_FREEZEABLE and WQ_RESCUER are meaningful) + * + * Allocate an ordered workqueue. An ordered workqueue executes at + * most one work item at any given time in the queued order. They are + * implemented as unbound workqueues with @max_active of one. + * + * RETURNS: + * Pointer to the allocated workqueue on success, %NULL on failure. + */ +static inline struct workqueue_struct * +alloc_ordered_workqueue(const char *name, unsigned int flags) +{ + return alloc_workqueue(name, WQ_UNBOUND | flags, 1); +} + #define create_workqueue(name) \ alloc_workqueue((name), WQ_RESCUER, 1) #define create_freezeable_workqueue(name) \ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b