This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block,bfq: Disable writeback throttling
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-bfq-disable-writeback-throttling.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Dec 20 18:17:52 CET 2017
From: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 16:27:21 +0200
Subject: block,bfq: Disable writeback throttling
From: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit b5dc5d4d1f4ff9032eb6c21a3c571a1317dc9289 ]
Similarly to CFQ, BFQ has its write-throttling heuristics, and it
is better not to combine them with further write-throttling
heuristics of a different nature.
So this commit disables write-back throttling for a device if BFQ
is used as I/O scheduler for that device.
Signed-off-by: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Lee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/bfq-iosched.c | 3 ++-
block/blk-wbt.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@
#include "blk-mq-tag.h"
#include "blk-mq-sched.h"
#include "bfq-iosched.h"
+#include "blk-wbt.h"
#define BFQ_BFQQ_FNS(name) \
void bfq_mark_bfqq_##name(struct bfq_queue *bfqq) \
@@ -4775,7 +4776,7 @@ static int bfq_init_queue(struct request
bfq_init_root_group(bfqd->root_group, bfqd);
bfq_init_entity(&bfqd->oom_bfqq.entity, bfqd->root_group);
-
+ wbt_disable_default(q);
return 0;
out_free:
--- a/block/blk-wbt.c
+++ b/block/blk-wbt.c
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ void wbt_set_write_cache(struct rq_wb *r
}
/*
- * Disable wbt, if enabled by default. Only called from CFQ.
+ * Disable wbt, if enabled by default.
*/
void wbt_disable_default(struct request_queue *q)
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucmiccio@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/block-bfq-disable-writeback-throttling.patch