Hi Greg, Could you please backport the below commit to 4.9 stable tree. With a CPU bounded workqueue we see much lower cpu utilization and the same IOPs performance. commit b7363e67b23e04c23c2a99437feefac7292a88bc Author: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 8 22:03:17 2017 +0200 IB/device: Convert ib-comp-wq to be CPU-bound Thanks, Raju