linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Writeback fix for 4.6-final

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Date:	Fri, 6 May 2016 13:02:41 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:	<torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] Writeback fix for 4.6-final

Hi Linus,

Just a single fix for domain aware writeback, fixing a regression that
can cause balance_dirty_pages() to keep looping while not getting any
work done.

Please pull!


  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git for-linus


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Howard Cochran (1):
      writeback: Fix performance regression in wb_over_bg_thresh()

 mm/page-writeback.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe