From: Tejun Heo kmirrord_wq, kcopyd_work and md->wq are created per dm instance and serve only a single work item from the dm instance, so non-reentrant workqueues would provide the same ordering guarantees as ordered ones while allowing CPU affinity and use of the workqueues for other purposes. Switch them to non-reentrant workqueues. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 3 ++- drivers/md/dm-raid1.c | 5 +++-- drivers/md/dm.c | 3 ++- include/linux/dm-ioctl.h | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.37.orig/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c +++ linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c @@ -672,7 +672,8 @@ int dm_kcopyd_client_create(unsigned int goto bad_slab; INIT_WORK(&kc->kcopyd_work, do_work); - kc->kcopyd_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("kcopyd", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM); + kc->kcopyd_wq = alloc_workqueue("kcopyd", + WQ_NON_REENTRANT | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); if (!kc->kcopyd_wq) goto bad_workqueue; Index: linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.37.orig/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c +++ linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c @@ -1085,7 +1085,8 @@ static int mirror_ctr(struct dm_target * ti->num_flush_requests = 1; ti->num_discard_requests = 1; - ms->kmirrord_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("kmirrord", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM); + ms->kmirrord_wq = alloc_workqueue("kmirrord", + WQ_NON_REENTRANT | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); if (!ms->kmirrord_wq) { DMERR("couldn't start kmirrord"); r = -ENOMEM; @@ -1414,7 +1415,7 @@ static int mirror_iterate_devices(struct static struct target_type mirror_target = { .name = "mirror", - .version = {1, 12, 0}, + .version = {1, 12, 1}, .module = THIS_MODULE, .ctr = mirror_ctr, .dtr = mirror_dtr, Index: linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.37.orig/drivers/md/dm.c +++ linux-2.6.37/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -1883,7 +1883,8 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(i add_disk(md->disk); format_dev_t(md->name, MKDEV(_major, minor)); - md->wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("kdmflush", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM); + md->wq = alloc_workqueue("kdmflush", + WQ_NON_REENTRANT | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); if (!md->wq) goto bad_thread; Index: linux-2.6.37/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.37.orig/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h +++ linux-2.6.37/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h @@ -268,8 +268,8 @@ enum { #define DM_VERSION_MAJOR 4 #define DM_VERSION_MINOR 19 -#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL 0 -#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA "-ioctl (2010-10-14)" +#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL 1 +#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA "-ioctl (2011-01-07)" /* Status bits */ #define DM_READONLY_FLAG (1 << 0) /* In/Out */