Re: Fwd: [PATCH] cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:53:17AM +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:36:34 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 02:08:50PM -0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> >> subject: [PATCH] cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes
> >> commit id: 3932a86b4b9d1f0b049d64d4591ce58ad18b44ec
> >> why: cfq starvation, easily can easily trigger with O_DIRECT-heavy workloads.
> >> versions: all that are maintained, if possible. I have verified it
> >> cherry picks cleanly at least until 4.5
> >> reason for not using "CC stable": I just forgot, sorry.
> > 
> > It seems to apply to 4.4 as well, is that ok, or should it not go there?
> 
> FWIW I've had it in 4.4 until recently and it worked just fine.
> The corner case that is addressed is generic and seems to have been
> there quite a while.

Thanks, now applied there as well.

greg k-h
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