[PATCH 02/13] xfs: rename the xfs_syncd workqueue

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sat Sep 1 18:17:22 CDT 2012


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:00:06PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> There is nothing "sync" realted to this work queue any more. It is a general
> purpose per-filesystem work queue. Rename it appropriately, and remove the
> "syncd" naming from various functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

With the current leight-weight workqueues I don't see why we'd even want
a shared one for the different callers.  Let's move the patch until
after killing xfs_flush_worker & co, and then add a workqueue for
background and the log sync individually.



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