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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst index 3943b5bfa8cf..00a5ba51e63f 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ up. Although MT wq wasted a lot of resource, the level of concurrency provided was unsatisfactory. The limitation was common to both ST and MT wq albeit less severe on MT. Each wq maintained its own separate -worker pool. A MT wq could provide only one execution context per CPU -while a ST wq one for the whole system. Work items had to compete for +worker pool. An MT wq could provide only one execution context per CPU +while an ST wq one for the whole system. Work items had to compete for those very limited execution contexts leading to various problems including proneness to deadlocks around the single execution context. @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Application Programming Interface (API) ``alloc_workqueue()`` allocates a wq. The original ``create_*workqueue()`` functions are deprecated and scheduled for -removal. ``alloc_workqueue()`` takes three arguments - @``name``, +removal. ``alloc_workqueue()`` takes three arguments - ``@name``, ``@flags`` and ``@max_active``. ``@name`` is the name of the wq and also used as the name of the rescuer thread if there is one. @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ resources, scheduled and executed. served by worker threads with elevated nice level. Note that normal and highpri worker-pools don't interact with - each other. Each maintain its separate pool of workers and + each other. Each maintains its separate pool of workers and implements concurrency management among its workers. ``WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE`` @@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ unbound worker-pools and only one work item could be active at any given time thus achieving the same ordering property as ST wq. In the current implementation the above configuration only guarantees -ST behavior within a given NUMA node. Instead alloc_ordered_queue should -be used to achieve system wide ST behavior. +ST behavior within a given NUMA node. Instead ``alloc_ordered_queue()`` should +be used to achieve system-wide ST behavior. Example Execution Scenarios |