Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | [PATCH 4/4] writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2013 13:44:09 -0800 |
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There are cases where userland wants to tweak the priority and affinity of writeback flushers. Expose bdi_wq to userland by setting WQ_SYSFS. It appears under /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/writeback/ and allows adjusting maximum concurrency level, cpumask and nice level.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 2857d4f..5025174 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static int __init default_bdi_init(void) int err; bdi_wq = alloc_workqueue("writeback", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_FREEZABLE | - WQ_UNBOUND, 0); + WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_SYSFS, 0); if (!bdi_wq) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.8.1.4
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