1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index 06d23b976f4c..5484888d39c4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1607,12 +1607,28 @@ xfs_init_workqueues(void)
         xfs_syncd_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfssyncd", WQ_NON_REENTRANT, 0);
         if (!xfs_syncd_wq)
                 return -ENOMEM;
+
+        /*
+         * The allocation workqueue can be used in memory reclaim situations
+         * (writepage path), and parallelism is only limited by the number of
+         * AGs in all the filesystems mounted. Hence use the default large
+         * max_active value for this workqueue.
+         */
+        xfs_alloc_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfsalloc", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
+        if (!xfs_alloc_wq)
+                goto out_destroy_syncd;
+
         return 0;
+
+out_destroy_syncd:
+        destroy_workqueue(xfs_syncd_wq);
+        return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
 STATIC void
 xfs_destroy_workqueues(void)
 {
+        destroy_workqueue(xfs_alloc_wq);
         destroy_workqueue(xfs_syncd_wq);
 }