diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index fc557a3be0a9af055a9a9505d3c161a77a7f2129..8007bd675889610cb92668baac3aab9a08c81bad 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static int __init aio_setup(void)
 	kiocb_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(kiocb, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC);
 	kioctx_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(kioctx,SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC);
 
-	aio_wq = create_workqueue("aio");
+	aio_wq = alloc_workqueue("aio", 0, 1);	/* used to limit concurrency */
 	abe_pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(1, sizeof(struct aio_batch_entry));
 	BUG_ON(!aio_wq || !abe_pool);
 
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static int __aio_put_req(struct kioctx *ctx, struct kiocb *req)
 		spin_lock(&fput_lock);
 		list_add(&req->ki_list, &fput_head);
 		spin_unlock(&fput_lock);
-		queue_work(aio_wq, &fput_work);
+		schedule_work(&fput_work);
 	} else {
 		req->ki_filp = NULL;
 		really_put_req(ctx, req);