crypto: mark crypto workqueues CPU_INTENSIVE

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@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/crypto/crypto_wq.c b/crypto/crypto_wq.c
index fdcf624..b980ee1 100644 (file)
--- 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 de30782..806635f 100644 (file)
--- 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;