[PATCH V4 14/16] block, bfq: handle bursts of queue activations

2017-04-12 Thread Paolo Valente
From: Arianna Avanzini Many popular I/O-intensive services or applications spawn or reactivate many parallel threads/processes during short time intervals. Examples are systemd during boot or git grep. These services or applications benefit mostly from a high

[PATCH V4 14/16] block, bfq: handle bursts of queue activations

2017-04-12 Thread Paolo Valente
From: Arianna Avanzini Many popular I/O-intensive services or applications spawn or reactivate many parallel threads/processes during short time intervals. Examples are systemd during boot or git grep. These services or applications benefit mostly from a high throughput: the quicker the I/O