Hi, This patch removes the WQ_UNBOUND flag (which implies WQ_HIGHPRI) from the DLM's ast work queue, in favor of just WQ_HIGHPRI. This has been shown to cause a 19 percent performance increase for simultaneous inode creates on GFS2 with fs_mark.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpete...@redhat.com> --- diff --git a/fs/dlm/ast.c b/fs/dlm/ast.c index dcea1e3..07fed83 100644 --- a/fs/dlm/ast.c +++ b/fs/dlm/ast.c @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ void dlm_callback_work(struct work_struct *work) int dlm_callback_start(struct dlm_ls *ls) { ls->ls_callback_wq = alloc_workqueue("dlm_callback", - WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); + WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); if (!ls->ls_callback_wq) { log_print("can't start dlm_callback workqueue"); return -ENOMEM;