@@ -3495,7 +3495,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
percpu_counter_set(&sbi->s_dirtyblocks_counter, 0);
no_journal:
- EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq = create_workqueue("ext4-dio-unwritten");
+ /*
+ * The maximum number of concurrent works can be high and
+ * concurrency isn't really necessary. Limit it to 1.
+ */
+ EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq =
+ alloc_workqueue("ext4-dio-unwritten", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
if (!EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq) {
printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: failed to create DIO workqueue\n");
goto failed_mount_wq;
Convert create_workqueue() to alloc_workqueue(). This is an identity conversion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org --- It might be helpful to use higher max concurrency. I don't think it would make a lot of difference tho. Please feel free to take it into the subsystem tree or simply ack - I'll route it through the wq tree. Thanks. fs/ext4/super.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)