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From: Glauber Costa <glauber@scylladb.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 09:15:37 -0400
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Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] cfq: fix starvation of asynchronous writes
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> 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?
>

As far as I know it affects 4.4 as well.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h