fsverity: Remove WQ_UNBOUND from fsverity read workqueue

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commit f959325e6a upstream.

WQ_UNBOUND causes significant scheduler latency on ARM64/Android.  This
is problematic for latency sensitive workloads, like I/O
post-processing.

Removing WQ_UNBOUND gives a 96% reduction in fsverity workqueue related
scheduler latency and improves app cold startup times by ~30ms.
WQ_UNBOUND was also removed from the dm-verity workqueue for the same
reason [1].

This code was tested by running Android app startup benchmarks and
measuring how long the fsverity workqueue spent in the runnable state.

Before
Total workqueue scheduler latency: 553800us
After
Total workqueue scheduler latency: 18962us

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230202012348.885402-1-nhuck@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
Fixes: 8a1d0f9cac ("fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230310193325.620493-1-nhuck@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Nathan Huckleberry 2023-03-10 11:33:25 -08:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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