dlm: don't specify WQ_UNBOUND for the ast callback workqueue
authorBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:34:54 +0000 (11:34 -0400)
committerDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:13:04 +0000 (11:13 -0500)
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 <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
fs/dlm/ast.c

index dcea1e3..07fed83 100644 (file)
@@ -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;