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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c index 8a00cc42e498..ccf5b852fbf7 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c @@ -1401,14 +1401,16 @@ static int verity_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv) /* WQ_UNBOUND greatly improves performance when running on ramdisk */ wq_flags = WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND; - if (v->use_tasklet) { - /* - * Allow verify_wq to preempt softirq since verification in - * tasklet will fall-back to using it for error handling - * (or if the bufio cache doesn't have required hashes). - */ - wq_flags |= WQ_HIGHPRI; - } + /* + * Using WQ_HIGHPRI improves throughput and completion latency by + * reducing wait times when reading from a dm-verity device. + * + * Also as required for the "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature: WQ_HIGHPRI + * allows verify_wq to preempt softirq since verification in tasklet + * will fall-back to using it for error handling (or if the bufio cache + * doesn't have required hashes). + */ + wq_flags |= WQ_HIGHPRI; v->verify_wq = alloc_workqueue("kverityd", wq_flags, num_online_cpus()); if (!v->verify_wq) { ti->error = "Cannot allocate workqueue"; |