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2017-08-16btrfs: constify tracepoint argumentsJeff Mahoney1-3/+3
Tracepoint arguments are all read-only. If we mark the arguments as const, we're able to keep or convert those arguments to const where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2016-12-13btrfs: limit async_work allocation and worker func durationMaxim Patlasov1-0/+1
Problem statement: unprivileged user who has read-write access to more than one btrfs subvolume may easily consume all kernel memory (eventually triggering oom-killer). Reproducer (./mkrmdir below essentially loops over mkdir/rmdir): [root@kteam1 ~]# cat prep.sh DEV=/dev/sdb mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV mount $DEV /mnt for i in `seq 1 16` do mkdir /mnt/$i btrfs subvolume create /mnt/SV_$i ID=`btrfs subvolume list /mnt |grep "SV_$i$" |cut -d ' ' -f 2` mount -t btrfs -o subvolid=$ID $DEV /mnt/$i chmod a+rwx /mnt/$i done [root@kteam1 ~]# sh prep.sh [maxim@kteam1 ~]$ for i in `seq 1 16`; do ./mkrmdir /mnt/$i 2000 2000 & done [root@kteam1 ~]# for i in `seq 1 4`; do grep "kmalloc-128" /proc/slabinfo | grep -v dma; sleep 60; done kmalloc-128 10144 10144 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 317 317 0 kmalloc-128 9992352 9992352 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 312261 312261 0 kmalloc-128 24226752 24226752 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 757086 757086 0 kmalloc-128 42754240 42754240 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1336070 1336070 0 The huge numbers above come from insane number of async_work-s allocated and queued by btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node. The problem is caused by btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node() queuing more and more works if the number of delayed items is above BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND. The worker func (btrfs_async_run_delayed_root) processes at least BTRFS_DELAYED_BATCH items (if they are present in the list). So, the machinery works as expected while the list is almost empty. As soon as it is getting bigger, worker func starts to process more than one item at a time, it takes longer, and the chances to have async_works queued more than needed is getting higher. The problem above is worsened by another flaw of delayed-inode implementation: if async_work was queued in a throttling branch (number of items >= BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK), corresponding worker func won't quit until the number of items < BTRFS_DELAYED_BACKGROUND / 2. So, it is possible that the func occupies CPU infinitely (up to 30sec in my experiments): while the func is trying to drain the list, the user activity may add more and more items to the list. The patch fixes both problems in straightforward way: refuse queuing too many works in btrfs_wq_run_delayed_node and bail out of worker func if at least BTRFS_DELAYED_WRITEBACK items are processed. Changed in v2: remove support of thresh == NO_THRESHOLD. Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.15+
2016-07-26btrfs: plumb fs_info into btrfs_workJeff Mahoney1-1/+5
In order to provide an fsid for trace events, we'll need a btrfs_fs_info pointer. The most lightweight way to do that for btrfs_work structures is to associate it with the __btrfs_workqueue structure. Each queued btrfs_work structure has a workqueue associated with it, so that's a natural fit. It's a privately defined structures, so we add accessors to retrieve the fs_info pointer. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
2015-08-31btrfs: async_thread: Fix workqueue 'max_active' value when initializingQu Wenruo1-1/+1
At initializing time, for threshold-able workqueue, it's max_active of kernel workqueue should be 1 and grow if it hits threshold. But due to the bad naming, there is both 'max_active' for kernel workqueue and btrfs workqueue. So wrong value is given at workqueue initialization. This patch fixes it, and to avoid further misunderstanding, change the member name of btrfs_workqueue to 'current_active' and 'limit_active'. Also corresponding comment is added for readability. Reported-by: Alex Lyakas <alex.btrfs@zadarastorage.com> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2015-06-10btrfs: Fix lockdep warning of wr_ctx->wr_lock in scrub_free_wr_ctx()Zhao Lei1-0/+2
lockdep report following warning in test: [25176.843958] ================================= [25176.844519] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] [25176.845047] 4.1.0-rc3 #22 Tainted: G W [25176.845591] --------------------------------- [25176.846153] inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. [25176.846713] fsstress/26661 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: [25176.847246] (&wr_ctx->wr_lock){+.?...}, at: [<ffffffffa04cdc6d>] scrub_free_ctx+0x2d/0xf0 [btrfs] [25176.847838] {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: [25176.848396] [<ffffffff810bf460>] __lock_acquire+0x6a0/0xe10 [25176.848955] [<ffffffff810bfd1e>] lock_acquire+0xce/0x2c0 [25176.849491] [<ffffffff816489af>] mutex_lock_nested+0x7f/0x410 [25176.850029] [<ffffffffa04d04ff>] scrub_stripe+0x4df/0x1080 [btrfs] [25176.850575] [<ffffffffa04d11b1>] scrub_chunk.isra.19+0x111/0x130 [btrfs] [25176.851110] [<ffffffffa04d144c>] scrub_enumerate_chunks+0x27c/0x510 [btrfs] [25176.851660] [<ffffffffa04d3b87>] btrfs_scrub_dev+0x1c7/0x6c0 [btrfs] [25176.852189] [<ffffffffa04e918e>] btrfs_dev_replace_start+0x36e/0x450 [btrfs] [25176.852771] [<ffffffffa04a98e0>] btrfs_ioctl+0x1e10/0x2d20 [btrfs] [25176.853315] [<ffffffff8121c5b8>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x318/0x570 [25176.853868] [<ffffffff8121c851>] SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x80 [25176.854406] [<ffffffff8164da17>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6f [25176.854935] irq event stamp: 51506 [25176.855511] hardirqs last enabled at (51506): [<ffffffff810d4ce5>] vprintk_emit+0x225/0x5e0 [25176.856059] hardirqs last disabled at (51505): [<ffffffff810d4b77>] vprintk_emit+0xb7/0x5e0 [25176.856642] softirqs last enabled at (50886): [<ffffffff81067a23>] __do_softirq+0x363/0x640 [25176.857184] softirqs last disabled at (50949): [<ffffffff8106804d>] irq_exit+0x10d/0x120 [25176.857746] other info that might help us debug this: [25176.858845] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [25176.859981] CPU0 [25176.860537] ---- [25176.861059] lock(&wr_ctx->wr_lock); [25176.861705] <Interrupt> [25176.862272] lock(&wr_ctx->wr_lock); [25176.862881] *** DEADLOCK *** Reason: Above warning is caused by: Interrupt -> bio_endio() -> ... -> scrub_put_ctx() -> scrub_free_ctx() *1 -> ... -> mutex_lock(&wr_ctx->wr_lock); scrub_put_ctx() is allowed to be called in end_bio interrupt, but in code design, it will never call scrub_free_ctx(sctx) in interrupe context(above *1), because btrfs_scrub_dev() get one additional reference of sctx->refs, which makes scrub_free_ctx() only called withine btrfs_scrub_dev(). Now the code runs out of our wish, because free sequence in scrub_pending_bio_dec() have a gap. Current code: -----------------------------------+----------------------------------- scrub_pending_bio_dec() | btrfs_scrub_dev -----------------------------------+----------------------------------- atomic_dec(&sctx->bios_in_flight); | wake_up(&sctx->list_wait); | | scrub_put_ctx() | -> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs) scrub_put_ctx(sctx); | -> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs)| -> scrub_free_ctx() | -----------------------------------+----------------------------------- We expected: -----------------------------------+----------------------------------- scrub_pending_bio_dec() | btrfs_scrub_dev -----------------------------------+----------------------------------- atomic_dec(&sctx->bios_in_flight); | wake_up(&sctx->list_wait); | scrub_put_ctx(sctx); | -> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs)| | scrub_put_ctx() | -> atomic_dec_and_test(&sctx->refs) | -> scrub_free_ctx() -----------------------------------+----------------------------------- Fix: Move scrub_pending_bio_dec() to a workqueue, to avoid this function run in interrupt context. Tested by check tracelog in debug. Changelog v1->v2: Use workqueue instead of adjust function call sequence in v1, because v1 will introduce a bug pointed out by: Filipe David Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com> Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2015-02-16btrfs: use correct type for workqueue flagsDavid Sterba1-1/+1
Through all the local wrappers to alloc_workqueue, __alloc_workqueue_key takes an unsigned int. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
2014-09-18Btrfs: implement repair function when direct read failsMiao Xie1-0/+1
This patch implement data repair function when direct read fails. The detail of the implementation is: - When we find the data is not right, we try to read the data from the other mirror. - When the io on the mirror ends, we will insert the endio work into the dedicated btrfs workqueue, not common read endio workqueue, because the original endio work is still blocked in the btrfs endio workqueue, if we insert the endio work of the io on the mirror into that workqueue, deadlock would happen. - After we get right data, we write it back to the corrupted mirror. - And if the data on the new mirror is still corrupted, we will try next mirror until we read right data or all the mirrors are traversed. - After the above work, we set the uptodate flag according to the result. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-08-24Btrfs: fix task hang under heavy compressed writeLiu Bo1-1/+27
This has been reported and discussed for a long time, and this hang occurs in both 3.15 and 3.16. Btrfs now migrates to use kernel workqueue, but it introduces this hang problem. Btrfs has a kind of work queued as an ordered way, which means that its ordered_func() must be processed in the way of FIFO, so it usually looks like -- normal_work_helper(arg) work = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work); work->func() <---- (we name it work X) for ordered_work in wq->ordered_list ordered_work->ordered_func() ordered_work->ordered_free() The hang is a rare case, first when we find free space, we get an uncached block group, then we go to read its free space cache inode for free space information, so it will file a readahead request btrfs_readpages() for page that is not in page cache __do_readpage() submit_extent_page() btrfs_submit_bio_hook() btrfs_bio_wq_end_io() submit_bio() end_workqueue_bio() <--(ret by the 1st endio) queue a work(named work Y) for the 2nd also the real endio() So the hang occurs when work Y's work_struct and work X's work_struct happens to share the same address. A bit more explanation, A,B,C -- struct btrfs_work arg -- struct work_struct kthread: worker_thread() pick up a work_struct from @worklist process_one_work(arg) worker->current_work = arg; <-- arg is A->normal_work worker->current_func(arg) normal_work_helper(arg) A = container_of(arg, struct btrfs_work, normal_work); A->func() A->ordered_func() A->ordered_free() <-- A gets freed B->ordered_func() submit_compressed_extents() find_free_extent() load_free_space_inode() ... <-- (the above readhead stack) end_workqueue_bio() btrfs_queue_work(work C) B->ordered_free() As if work A has a high priority in wq->ordered_list and there are more ordered works queued after it, such as B->ordered_func(), its memory could have been freed before normal_work_helper() returns, which means that kernel workqueue code worker_thread() still has worker->current_work pointer to be work A->normal_work's, ie. arg's address. Meanwhile, work C is allocated after work A is freed, work C->normal_work and work A->normal_work are likely to share the same address(I confirmed this with ftrace output, so I'm not just guessing, it's rare though). When another kthread picks up work C->normal_work to process, and finds our kthread is processing it(see find_worker_executing_work()), it'll think work C as a collision and skip then, which ends up nobody processing work C. So the situation is that our kthread is waiting forever on work C. Besides, there're other cases that can lead to deadlock, but the real problem is that all btrfs workqueue shares one work->func, -- normal_work_helper, so this makes each workqueue to have its own helper function, but only a wraper pf normal_work_helper. With this patch, I no long hit the above hang. Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-03-21btrfs: Add trace for btrfs_workqueue alloc/destroyQu Wenruo1-1/+1
Since most of the btrfs_workqueue is printed as pointer address, for easier analysis, add trace for btrfs_workqueue alloc/destroy. So it is possible to determine the workqueue that a given work belongs to(by comparing the wq pointer address with alloc trace event). Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-03-10btrfs: Cleanup the btrfs_workqueue related function typeQu Wenruo1-9/+11
The new btrfs_workqueue still use open-coded function defition, this patch will change them into btrfs_func_t type which is much the same as kernel workqueue. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
2014-03-10btrfs: Cleanup the "_struct" suffix in btrfs_workequeueQu Wenruo1-17/+17
Since the "_struct" suffix is mainly used for distinguish the differnt btrfs_work between the original and the newly created one, there is no need using the suffix since all btrfs_workers are changed into btrfs_workqueue. Also this patch fixed some codes whose code style is changed due to the too long "_struct" suffix. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
2014-03-10btrfs: Cleanup the old btrfs_worker.Qu Wenruo1-100/+0
Since all the btrfs_worker is replaced with the newly created btrfs_workqueue, the old codes can be easily remove. Signed-off-by: Quwenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
2014-03-10btrfs: Add threshold workqueue based on kernel workqueueQu Wenruo1-1/+2
The original btrfs_workers has thresholding functions to dynamically create or destroy kthreads. Though there is no such function in kernel workqueue because the worker is not created manually, we can still use the workqueue_set_max_active to simulated the behavior, mainly to achieve a better HDD performance by setting a high threshold on submit_workers. (Sadly, no resource can be saved) So in this patch, extra workqueue pending counters are introduced to dynamically change the max active of each btrfs_workqueue_struct, hoping to restore the behavior of the original thresholding function. Also, workqueue_set_max_active use a mutex to protect workqueue_struct, which is not meant to be called too frequently, so a new interval mechanism is applied, that will only call workqueue_set_max_active after a count of work is queued. Hoping to balance both the random and sequence performance on HDD. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
2014-03-10btrfs: Add high priority workqueue support for btrfs_workqueue_structQu Wenruo1-1/+4
Add high priority function to btrfs_workqueue. This is implemented by embedding a btrfs_workqueue into a btrfs_workqueue and use some helper functions to differ the normal priority wq and high priority wq. So the high priority wq is completely independent from the normal workqueue. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
2014-03-10btrfs: Added btrfs_workqueue_struct implemented ordered execution based on ↵Qu Wenruo1-0/+27
kernel workqueue Use kernel workqueue to implement a new btrfs_workqueue_struct, which has the ordering execution feature like the btrfs_worker. The func is executed in a concurrency way, and the ordred_func/ordered_free is executed in the sequence them are queued after the corresponding func is done. The new btrfs_workqueue works much like the original one, one workqueue for normal work and a list for ordered work. When a work is queued, ordered work will be added to the list and helper function will be queued into the workqueue. The helper function will execute a normal work and then check and execute as many ordered work as possible in the sequence they were queued. At this patch, high priority work queue or thresholding is not added yet. The high priority feature and thresholding will be added in the following patches. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
2013-10-05Btrfs: eliminate races in worker stopping codeIlya Dryomov1-0/+2
The current implementation of worker threads in Btrfs has races in worker stopping code, which cause all kinds of panics and lockups when running btrfs/011 xfstest in a loop. The problem is that btrfs_stop_workers is unsynchronized with respect to check_idle_worker, check_busy_worker and __btrfs_start_workers. E.g., check_idle_worker race flow: btrfs_stop_workers(): check_idle_worker(aworker): - grabs the lock - splices the idle list into the working list - removes the first worker from the working list - releases the lock to wait for its kthread's completion - grabs the lock - if aworker is on the working list, moves aworker from the working list to the idle list - releases the lock - grabs the lock - puts the worker - removes the second worker from the working list ...... btrfs_stop_workers returns, aworker is on the idle list FS is umounted, memory is freed ...... aworker is waken up, fireworks ensue With this applied, I wasn't able to trigger the problem in 48 hours, whereas previously I could reliably reproduce at least one of these races within an hour. Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
2012-03-22btrfs: return void in functions without error conditionsJeff Mahoney1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
2011-12-15Btrfs: fix num_workers_starting bug and other bugs in async threadJosef Bacik1-2/+2
Al pointed out we have some random problems with the way we account for num_workers_starting in the async thread stuff. First of all we need to make sure to decrement num_workers_starting if we fail to start the worker, so make __btrfs_start_workers do this. Also fix __btrfs_start_workers so that it doesn't call btrfs_stop_workers(), there is no point in stopping everybody if we failed to create a worker. Also check_pending_worker_creates needs to call __btrfs_start_work in it's work function since it already increments num_workers_starting. People only start one worker at a time, so get rid of the num_workers argument everywhere, and make btrfs_queue_worker a void since it will always succeed. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2009-10-05Btrfs: fix deadlock on async thread startupChris Mason1-3/+7
The btrfs async worker threads are used for a wide variety of things, including processing bio end_io functions. This means that when the endio threads aren't running, the rest of the FS isn't able to do the final processing required to clear PageWriteback. The endio threads also try to exit as they become idle and start more as the work piles up. The problem is that starting more threads means kthreadd may need to allocate ram, and that allocation may wait until the global number of writeback pages on the system is below a certain limit. The result of that throttling is that end IO threads wait on kthreadd, who is waiting on IO to end, which will never happen. This commit fixes the deadlock by handing off thread startup to a dedicated thread. It also fixes a bug where the on-demand thread creation was creating far too many threads because it didn't take into account threads being started by other procs. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: keep irqs on more often in the worker threadsChris Mason1-0/+3
The btrfs worker thread spinlock was being used both for the queueing of IO and for the processing of ordered events. The ordered events never happen from end_io handlers, and so they don't need to use the _irq version of spinlocks. This adds a dedicated lock to the ordered lists so they don't have to run with irqs off. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-09-11Btrfs: Allow worker threads to exit when idleChris Mason1-0/+9
The Btrfs worker threads don't currently die off after they have been idle for a while, leading to a lot of threads sitting around doing nothing for each mount. Also, they are unable to start atomically (from end_io hanlders). This commit reworks the worker threads so they can be started from end_io handlers (just setting a flag that asks for a thread to be added at a later date) and so they can exit if they have been idle for a long time. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20Btrfs: add a priority queue to the async thread helpersChris Mason1-0/+2
Btrfs is using WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to send down synchronous IOs with a higher priority. But, the checksumming helper threads prevent it from being fully effective. There are two problems. First, a big queue of pending checksumming will delay the synchronous IO behind other lower priority writes. Second, the checksumming uses an ordered async work queue. The ordering makes sure that IOs are sent to the block layer in the same order they are sent to the checksumming threads. Usually this gives us less seeky IO. But, when we start mixing IO priorities, the lower priority IO can delay the higher priority IO. This patch solves both problems by adding a high priority list to the async helper threads, and a new btrfs_set_work_high_prio(), which is used to make put a new async work item onto the higher priority list. The ordering is still done on high priority IO, but all of the high priority bios are ordered separately from the low priority bios. This ordering is purely an IO optimization, it is not involved in data or metadata integrity. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-07Btrfs: Add ordered async work queuesChris Mason1-1/+17
Btrfs uses kernel threads to create async work queues for cpu intensive operations such as checksumming and decompression. These work well, but they make it difficult to keep IO order intact. A single writepages call from pdflush or fsync will turn into a number of bios, and each bio is checksummed in parallel. Once the checksum is computed, the bio is sent down to the disk, and since we don't control the order in which the parallel operations happen, they might go down to the disk in almost any order. The code deals with this somewhat by having deep work queues for a single kernel thread, making it very likely that a single thread will process all the bios for a single inode. This patch introduces an explicitly ordered work queue. As work structs are placed into the queue they are put onto the tail of a list. They have three callbacks: ->func (cpu intensive processing here) ->ordered_func (order sensitive processing here) ->ordered_free (free the work struct, all processing is done) The work struct has three callbacks. The func callback does the cpu intensive work, and when it completes the work struct is marked as done. Every time a work struct completes, the list is checked to see if the head is marked as done. If so the ordered_func callback is used to do the order sensitive processing and the ordered_free callback is used to do any cleanup. Then we loop back and check the head of the list again. This patch also changes the checksumming code to use the ordered workqueues. One a 4 drive array, it increases streaming writes from 280MB/s to 350MB/s. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-29Btrfs: add and improve commentsChris Mason1-2/+5
This improves the comments at the top of many functions. It didn't dive into the guts of functions because I was trying to avoid merging problems with the new allocator and back reference work. extent-tree.c and volumes.c were both skipped, and there is definitely more work todo in cleaning and commenting the code. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Give all the worker threads descriptive namesChris Mason1-1/+4
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Worker thread optimizationsChris Mason1-3/+4
This changes the worker thread pool to maintain a list of idle threads, avoiding a complex search for a good thread to wake up. Threads have two states: idle - we try to reuse the last thread used in hopes of improving the batching ratios busy - each time a new work item is added to a busy task, the task is rotated to the end of the line. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25Btrfs: Add async worker threads for pre and post IO checksummingChris Mason1-0/+78
Btrfs has been using workqueues to spread the checksumming load across other CPUs in the system. But, workqueues only schedule work on the same CPU that queued the work, giving them a limited benefit for systems with higher CPU counts. This code adds a generic facility to schedule work with pools of kthreads, and changes the bio submission code to queue bios up. The queueing is important to make sure large numbers of procs on the system don't turn streaming workloads into random workloads by sending IO down concurrently. The end result of all of this is much higher performance (and CPU usage) when doing checksumming on large machines. Two worker pools are created, one for writes and one for endio processing. The two could deadlock if we tried to service both from a single pool. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>