When WQ_HIGHPRI was used for the dm-crypt kcryptd workqueue it was
reported that dm-crypt performs badly when the system is loaded[1].
Because of reports of audio skipping, dm-crypt stopped using
WQ_HIGHPRI with commit f612b2132db5 (Revert "dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI
for the IO and crypt workqueues").
But it has since been determined that WQ_HIGHPRI provides improved
performance (with reduced latency) for highend systems with much more
resources than those laptop/desktop users which suffered from the use
of WQ_HIGHPRI.
As such, add an option "high_priority" that allows the use of
WQ_HIGHPRI for dm-crypt's workqueues and also sets the write_thread to
nice level MIN_NICE (-20). This commit makes it optional, so that
normal users won't be harmed by it.
[1] https://listman.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2023-February/053410.html
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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