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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html