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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 dc72690..22ff51b 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; |
