A couple of patches to fix (1) a potential problem with mq-deadline IO priority handling and (2) to improve write performance with HDDs. While the performance improvement patch is technically not a bug fix, the improvement is so significant with some HDDs that I added cc-stable tag to get the patch added to LTS kernels. Damien Le Moal (2): block: mq-deadline: Fix dd_finish_request() for zoned devices block: mq-deadline: Do not break sequential write streams to zoned HDDs block/mq-deadline.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- 2.38.1