[PATCH RFC 14/22] block, bfq: improve responsiveness

2016-02-01 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 RFC 14/22] block, bfq: improve responsiveness

2016-02-01 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