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    [PATCH] loop: remove the balance_dirty_pages() call · 80e8ebf2
    Andrew Morton authored
    The loop thread is getting permanently stuck in balance_dirty_pages()
    (nr_writeback is exceeded) because the loop thread itself is responsible for
    completing writeback on behalf of higher layers.
    
    So we need to take that out: don't throttle the loop thread.  Throttle the
    tasks which are generating all the dirty data instead.
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