Re: [PATCH] dax: Fix inefficiency in dax_writeback_mapping_range()

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 02:45:31PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> dax_writeback_mapping_range() fails to update iteration index when
> searching radix tree for entries needing cache flushing. Thus each
> pagevec worth of entries is searched starting from the start which is
> inefficient and prone to livelocks. Update index properly.
> 
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 9973c98ecfda3a1dfcab981665b5f1e39bcde64a
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Yep, this seems good, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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