kcrypto_wq and pcrypt->wq's are used to run ciphers and may consume considerable amount of CPU cycles. Mark both as CPU_INTENSIVE so that they don't block other work items. As the workqueues are primarily used to burn CPU cycles, concurrency levels shouldn't matter much and are left at 1. A higher value may be beneficial and needs investigation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Only compile tested. Please feel free to take it into the subsystem tree or simply ack - I'll route it through the wq tree. Thanks. crypto/crypto_wq.c | 3 ++- crypto/pcrypt.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/crypto/crypto_wq.c b/crypto/crypto_wq.c index fdcf624..b980ee1 100644 --- a/crypto/crypto_wq.c +++ b/crypto/crypto_wq.c @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kcrypto_wq); static int __init crypto_wq_init(void) { - kcrypto_wq = create_workqueue("crypto"); + kcrypto_wq = alloc_workqueue("crypto", + WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE, 1); if (unlikely(!kcrypto_wq)) return -ENOMEM; return 0; diff --git a/crypto/pcrypt.c b/crypto/pcrypt.c index 75586f1..29a89da 100644 --- a/crypto/pcrypt.c +++ b/crypto/pcrypt.c @@ -455,7 +455,8 @@ static int pcrypt_init_padata(struct padata_pcrypt *pcrypt, get_online_cpus(); - pcrypt->wq = create_workqueue(name); + pcrypt->wq = alloc_workqueue(name, + WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE, 1); if (!pcrypt->wq) goto err; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html