From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: [PATCH] libata: use single threaded work queue Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:25:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20090819112554.GY12579@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: jeff@garzik.org, htejun@gmail.com List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi, On boxes with lots of CPUs, we have so many kernel threads it's not funny. The basic problem is that create_workqueue() creates a per-cpu thread, where we could easily get by with a single thread for a lot of cases. One such case appears to be ata_wq. You want at most one per pio drive, not one per CPU. I'd suggest just dropping it to a single threaded wq. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index 072ba5e..0d78628 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -6580,7 +6580,7 @@ static int __init ata_init(void) { ata_parse_force_param(); - ata_wq = create_workqueue("ata"); + ata_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("ata"); if (!ata_wq) goto free_force_tbl; -- Jens Axboe