[PATCH V2 15/22] block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications

2016-08-08 Thread Paolo Valente
To guarantee a low latency also to the I/O requests issued by soft real-time applications, this patch introduces a further heuristic, which weight-raises (in the sense explained in the previous patch) also the queues associated to applications deemed as soft real-time. To be deemed as soft

[PATCH V2 15/22] block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications

2016-08-08 Thread Paolo Valente
To guarantee a low latency also to the I/O requests issued by soft real-time applications, this patch introduces a further heuristic, which weight-raises (in the sense explained in the previous patch) also the queues associated to applications deemed as soft real-time. To be deemed as soft