diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 118606ced985..38d222b6a476 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 1badcfbd7febd33f71fc02bda9112bd25e9c294b
+refs/heads/master: 37867ae7c549c58d44337e27738577ed8b7cd753
diff --git a/trunk/block/blk-iopoll.c b/trunk/block/blk-iopoll.c
index df6f192c9f67..0671d4614b08 100644
--- a/trunk/block/blk-iopoll.c
+++ b/trunk/block/blk-iopoll.c
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 int blk_iopoll_enabled = 1;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_iopoll_enabled);
 
+static unsigned int blk_iopoll_budget __read_mostly = 256;
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct list_head, blk_cpu_iopoll);
 
 /**
@@ -78,8 +80,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_iopoll_complete);
 static void blk_iopoll_softirq(struct softirq_action *h)
 {
 	struct list_head *list = &__get_cpu_var(blk_cpu_iopoll);
+	int rearm = 0, budget = blk_iopoll_budget;
 	unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
-	int rearm = 0, budget = 64;
 
 	local_irq_disable();