If we're in the process of shutting down the async context, then don't create new workers if we already have at least the fixed one. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io-wq.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/io-wq.c b/fs/io-wq.c index a61f867f98f4..d2b55ac817ef 100644 --- a/fs/io-wq.c +++ b/fs/io-wq.c @@ -673,6 +673,8 @@ static inline bool io_wqe_need_worker(struct io_wqe *wqe, int index) { struct io_wqe_acct *acct = &wqe->acct[index]; + if (acct->nr_workers && test_bit(IO_WQ_BIT_EXIT, &wqe->wq->state)) + return false; /* if we have available workers or no work, no need */ if (!hlist_nulls_empty(&wqe->free_list) || !io_wqe_run_queue(wqe)) return false; -- 2.30.1