[PATCH V4 00/16] Introduce the BFQ I/O scheduler

[Paolo Valente]

Hi,
new patch series, addressing (both) issues raised by Bart [1], and
with block/Makefile fixed as suggested by Bart [2].

Thanks,
Paolo

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/31/393
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/12/502

Arianna Avanzini (4):
  block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support
  block, bfq: add Early Queue Merge (EQM)
  block, bfq: reduce idling only in symmetric scenarios
  block, bfq: handle bursts of queue activations

Paolo Valente (12):
  block, bfq: introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler
  block, bfq: improve throughput boosting
  block, bfq: modify the peak-rate estimator
  block, bfq: add more fairness with writes and slow processes
  block, bfq: improve responsiveness
  block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications
  block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives
  block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation
  block, bfq: boost the throughput on NCQ-capable flash-based devices
  block, bfq: boost the throughput with random I/O on NCQ-capable HDDs
  block, bfq: remove all get and put of I/O contexts
  block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source files

 Documentation/block/00-INDEX        |    2 +
 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt |  531 ++++
 block/Kconfig.iosched               |   21 +
 block/Makefile                      |    2 +
 block/bfq-cgroup.c                  | 1139 ++++++++
 block/bfq-iosched.c                 | 5047 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block/bfq-iosched.h                 |  942 +++++++
 block/bfq-wf2q.c                    | 1616 +++++++++++
 include/linux/blkdev.h              |    2 +-
 9 files changed, 9301 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/block/bfq-iosched.txt
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-cgroup.c
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-iosched.c
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-iosched.h
 create mode 100644 block/bfq-wf2q.c

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