diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst
index 86de8a1ad91c..5fd14556c6fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst
@@ -495,3 +495,36 @@ the class and error context. For example, the default values for
 "metadata/ENODEV" are "0" rather than "-1" so that this error handler defaults
 to "fail immediately" behaviour. This is done because ENODEV is a fatal,
 unrecoverable error no matter how many times the metadata IO is retried.
+
+Workqueue Concurrency
+=====================
+
+XFS uses kernel workqueues to parallelize metadata update processes.  This
+enables it to take advantage of storage hardware that can service many IO
+operations simultaneously.
+
+The control knobs for a filesystem's workqueues are organized by task at hand
+and the short name of the data device.  They all can be found in:
+
+  /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/${task}!${device}
+
+================  ===========
+  Task            Description
+================  ===========
+  xfs_iwalk-$pid  Inode scans of the entire filesystem. Currently limited to
+                  mount time quotacheck.
+================  ===========
+
+For example, the knobs for the quotacheck workqueue for /dev/nvme0n1 would be
+found in /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/xfs_iwalk-1111!nvme0n1/.
+
+The interesting knobs for XFS workqueues are as follows:
+
+============     ===========
+  Knob           Description
+============     ===========
+  max_active     Maximum number of background threads that can be started to
+                 run the work.
+  cpumask        CPUs upon which the threads are allowed to run.
+  nice           Relative priority of scheduling the threads.  These are the
+                 same nice levels that can be applied to userspace processes.
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iwalk.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iwalk.c
index eae3aff9bc97..c4a340f1f1e1 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iwalk.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iwalk.c
@@ -618,15 +618,12 @@ xfs_iwalk_threaded(
 {
 	struct xfs_pwork_ctl	pctl;
 	xfs_agnumber_t		agno = XFS_INO_TO_AGNO(mp, startino);
-	unsigned int		nr_threads;
 	int			error;
 
 	ASSERT(agno < mp->m_sb.sb_agcount);
 	ASSERT(!(flags & ~XFS_IWALK_FLAGS_ALL));
 
-	nr_threads = xfs_pwork_guess_datadev_parallelism(mp);
-	error = xfs_pwork_init(mp, &pctl, xfs_iwalk_ag_work, "xfs_iwalk",
-			nr_threads);
+	error = xfs_pwork_init(mp, &pctl, xfs_iwalk_ag_work, "xfs_iwalk");
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.c
index b03333f1c84a..c283b801cc5d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.c
@@ -61,16 +61,18 @@ xfs_pwork_init(
 	struct xfs_mount	*mp,
 	struct xfs_pwork_ctl	*pctl,
 	xfs_pwork_work_fn	work_fn,
-	const char		*tag,
-	unsigned int		nr_threads)
+	const char		*tag)
 {
+	unsigned int		nr_threads = 0;
+
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	if (xfs_globals.pwork_threads >= 0)
 		nr_threads = xfs_globals.pwork_threads;
 #endif
 	trace_xfs_pwork_init(mp, nr_threads, current->pid);
 
-	pctl->wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%d", WQ_FREEZABLE, nr_threads, tag,
+	pctl->wq = alloc_workqueue("%s-%d",
+			WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_SYSFS | WQ_FREEZABLE, nr_threads, tag,
 			current->pid);
 	if (!pctl->wq)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -117,20 +119,3 @@ xfs_pwork_poll(
 				atomic_read(&pctl->nr_work) == 0, HZ) == 0)
 		touch_softlockup_watchdog();
 }
-
-/*
- * Return the amount of parallelism that the data device can handle, or 0 for
- * no limit.
- */
-unsigned int
-xfs_pwork_guess_datadev_parallelism(
-	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
-{
-	struct xfs_buftarg	*btp = mp->m_ddev_targp;
-
-	/*
-	 * For now we'll go with the most conservative setting possible,
-	 * which is two threads for an SSD and 1 thread everywhere else.
-	 */
-	return blk_queue_nonrot(btp->bt_bdev->bd_disk->queue) ? 2 : 1;
-}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.h
index 8133124cf3bb..c0ef81fc85dd 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_pwork.h
@@ -51,11 +51,9 @@ xfs_pwork_want_abort(
 }
 
 int xfs_pwork_init(struct xfs_mount *mp, struct xfs_pwork_ctl *pctl,
-		xfs_pwork_work_fn work_fn, const char *tag,
-		unsigned int nr_threads);
+		xfs_pwork_work_fn work_fn, const char *tag);
 void xfs_pwork_queue(struct xfs_pwork_ctl *pctl, struct xfs_pwork *pwork);
 int xfs_pwork_destroy(struct xfs_pwork_ctl *pctl);
 void xfs_pwork_poll(struct xfs_pwork_ctl *pctl);
-unsigned int xfs_pwork_guess_datadev_parallelism(struct xfs_mount *mp);
 
 #endif /* __XFS_PWORK_H__ */
