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rbd: rbd workqueues need a resque worker

Need to use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM for our workqueues to prevent I/O lockups
under memory pressure - we sit on the memory reclaim path.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17, needs backporting for 3.16
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Micha Krause <micha@krausam.de>
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>
Ilya Dryomov 11 years ago
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      drivers/block/rbd.c

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drivers/block/rbd.c

@@ -5242,7 +5242,8 @@ static int rbd_dev_device_setup(struct rbd_device *rbd_dev)
 	set_capacity(rbd_dev->disk, rbd_dev->mapping.size / SECTOR_SIZE);
 	set_disk_ro(rbd_dev->disk, rbd_dev->mapping.read_only);
 
-	rbd_dev->rq_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s", 0, 0, rbd_dev->disk->disk_name);
+	rbd_dev->rq_wq = alloc_workqueue("%s", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0,
+					 rbd_dev->disk->disk_name);
 	if (!rbd_dev->rq_wq) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_out_mapping;