Patch "block,bfq: Disable writeback throttling" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Dec 20 18:17:52 CET 2017
From: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 16:27:21 +0200
Subject: block,bfq: Disable writeback throttling

From: Luca Miccio <lucmiccio@gmail.com>


[ 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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Lee Tibbert <lee.tibbert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 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@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/block-bfq-disable-writeback-throttling.patch