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@@ -243,11 +243,15 @@ throttling the number of active work items, specifying '0' is
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recommended.
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Some users depend on the strict execution ordering of ST wq. The
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-combination of ``@max_active`` of 1 and ``WQ_UNBOUND`` is used to
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-achieve this behavior. Work items on such wq are always queued to the
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-unbound worker-pools and only one work item can be active at any given
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+combination of ``@max_active`` of 1 and ``WQ_UNBOUND`` used to
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+achieve this behavior. Work items on such wq were always queued to the
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+unbound worker-pools and only one work item could be active at any given
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time thus achieving the same ordering property as ST wq.
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+In the current implementation the above configuration only guarantees
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+ST behavior within a given NUMA node. Instead alloc_ordered_queue should
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+be used to achieve system wide ST behavior.
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Example Execution Scenarios
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