1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index 88cd0c893163..5f955f42377e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1625,12 +1625,12 @@ STATIC int __init
 xfs_init_workqueues(void)
 {
         /*
-         * max_active is set to 8 to give enough concurency to allow
-         * multiple work operations on each CPU to run. This allows multiple
-         * filesystems to be running sync work concurrently, and scales with
-         * the number of CPUs in the system.
+         * We never want to the same work item to run twice, reclaiming inodes
+         * or idling the log is not going to get any faster by multiple CPUs
+         * competing for ressources.  Use the default large max_active value
+         * so that even lots of filesystems can perform these task in parallel.
          */
-        xfs_syncd_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfssyncd", WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE, 8);
+        xfs_syncd_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfssyncd", WQ_NON_REENTRANT, 0);
         if (!xfs_syncd_wq)
                 return -ENOMEM;
         return 0;