[PATCH V4 09/16] block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation

2017-04-12 Thread Paolo Valente
This patch introduces an heuristic that reduces latency when the I/O-request pool is saturated. This goal is achieved by disabling device idling, for non-weight-raised queues, when there are weight- raised queues with pending or in-flight requests. In fact, as explained in more detail in the

[PATCH V4 09/16] block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation

2017-04-12 Thread Paolo Valente
This patch introduces an heuristic that reduces latency when the I/O-request pool is saturated. This goal is achieved by disabling device idling, for non-weight-raised queues, when there are weight- raised queues with pending or in-flight requests. In fact, as explained in more detail in the