[PATCH V4 06/16] block, bfq: improve responsiveness

2017-04-12 Thread Paolo Valente
This patch introduces a simple heuristic to load applications quickly, and to perform the I/O requested by interactive applications just as quickly. To this purpose, both a newly-created queue and a queue associated with an interactive application (we explain in a moment how BFQ decides whether

[PATCH V4 06/16] block, bfq: improve responsiveness

2017-04-12 Thread Paolo Valente
This patch introduces a simple heuristic to load applications quickly, and to perform the I/O requested by interactive applications just as quickly. To this purpose, both a newly-created queue and a queue associated with an interactive application (we explain in a moment how BFQ decides whether