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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 17:14:38 +1100 |
| commit | bcd6acd51f3d4d1ada201e9bc5c40a31d6d80c71 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6dffd2d3e4dd67355a224de7e7a960335a92fd /drivers/ata/libata-core.c | |
| parent | 11c34c7deaeeebcee342cbc35e1bb2a6711b2431 (diff) | |
| parent | 3ff6a468b45b5dfeb0e903e56f4eb27d34b2437c (diff) | |
Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Conflicts:
include/linux/kvm.h
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata/libata-core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index dc72690ed5d..22ff51bdbc8 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -6616,6 +6616,13 @@ static int __init ata_init(void) { ata_parse_force_param(); + /* + * FIXME: In UP case, there is only one workqueue thread and if you + * have more than one PIO device, latency is bloody awful, with + * occasional multi-second "hiccups" as one PIO device waits for + * another. It's an ugly wart that users DO occasionally complain + * about; luckily most users have at most one PIO polled device. + */ ata_wq = create_workqueue("ata"); if (!ata_wq) goto free_force_tbl; |