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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes
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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?

thanks,

greg k-h