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git-mirror · Dec 20, 2011 · 8fef3ac · 8fef3ac
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-refs/heads/master: 28fb588c9bd810dec273d96e80591392f6ce1e1c
+refs/heads/master: 40d344ec5ee440596b1f3ae87556e20c7197757a
diff --git a/trunk/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/trunk/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1625,12 +1625,12 @@ STATIC int __init
 xfs_init_workqueues(void)
 {
 	/*
-	 * max_active is set to 8 to give enough concurency to allow
-	 * multiple work operations on each CPU to run. This allows multiple
-	 * filesystems to be running sync work concurrently, and scales with
-	 * the number of CPUs in the system.
+	 * We never want to the same work item to run twice, reclaiming inodes
+	 * or idling the log is not going to get any faster by multiple CPUs
+	 * competing for ressources.  Use the default large max_active value
+	 * so that even lots of filesystems can perform these task in parallel.
 	 */
-	xfs_syncd_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfssyncd", WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE, 8);
+	xfs_syncd_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfssyncd", WQ_NON_REENTRANT, 0);
 	if (!xfs_syncd_wq)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	return 0;