(cherry pick from commit
ad3ac5180979e5dd1f84e4a807f76fb9fb19f814)
Running dm-crypt in a standard workqueue results in IO competing for CPU
time with standard user apps, which can lead to pipeline bubbles and
seriously degraded performance. Move to a WQ_HIGHPRI workqueue to
protect against that.
Signed-off-by: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Bug:
25392275
Change-Id: I2828587c754a7c2cafdd78b3323b9896cb8cd4e7
- cc->io_queue = alloc_workqueue("kcryptd_io", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
+ cc->io_queue = alloc_workqueue("kcryptd_io",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI |
+ WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
+ 1);
if (!cc->io_queue) {
ti->error = "Couldn't create kcryptd io queue";
goto bad;
}
if (test_bit(DM_CRYPT_SAME_CPU, &cc->flags))
if (!cc->io_queue) {
ti->error = "Couldn't create kcryptd io queue";
goto bad;
}
if (test_bit(DM_CRYPT_SAME_CPU, &cc->flags))
- cc->crypt_queue = alloc_workqueue("kcryptd", WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
+ cc->crypt_queue = alloc_workqueue("kcryptd",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI |
+ WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
- cc->crypt_queue = alloc_workqueue("kcryptd", WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND,
+ cc->crypt_queue = alloc_workqueue("kcryptd",
+ WQ_HIGHPRI |
+ WQ_MEM_RECLAIM |
+ WQ_UNBOUND,
num_online_cpus());
if (!cc->crypt_queue) {
ti->error = "Couldn't create kcryptd queue";
num_online_cpus());
if (!cc->crypt_queue) {
ti->error = "Couldn't create kcryptd queue";