block: Introduce the ioprio rq-qos policy

Introduce an rq-qos policy that assigns an I/O priority to requests based
on blk-cgroup configuration settings. This policy has the following
advantages over the ioprio_set() system call:
- This policy is cgroup based so it has all the advantages of cgroups.
- While ioprio_set() does not affect page cache writeback I/O, this rq-qos
  controller affects page cache writeback I/O for filesystems that support
  assiociating a cgroup with writeback I/O. See also
  Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst.

Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210618004456.7280-5-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/Makefile b/block/Makefile
index 8d841f5f986f..af3d044abaf1 100644
--- a/block/Makefile
+++ b/block/Makefile
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSGLIB)	+= bsg-lib.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP)	+= blk-cgroup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_RWSTAT)	+= blk-cgroup-rwstat.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING)	+= blk-throttle.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_IOPRIO)	+= blk-ioprio.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY)	+= blk-iolatency.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP_IOCOST)	+= blk-iocost.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE)	+= mq-deadline.o