iosched: effect of streaming read on streaming write

Here we look at how much damage a streaming read can do to writeout
performance.  Start a streaming read with:

	while true
	do
	        cat 512M-file > /dev/null
	done

and measure how long it takes to write out and fsync a 100 megabyte file:

	time write-and-fsync -f -m 100 outfile

2.4.21-pre4:	6.4 seconds
2.5.61+hacks:	7.7 seconds
2.5.61+CFQ:	8.4 seconds
2.5.61+AS:	11.9 seconds

This is the one where the anticipatory scheduler could show its downside. 
It's actually not too bad - the read stream steals 2/3rds of the disk
bandwidth.  Dirty memory will reach the vm threshold and writers will
throttle.  This is usually what we want to happen.

Here is the vmstat 1 trace for the anticipatory scheduler:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  1   8728   2268   2620 233412    0    0 40360     0 1658   802  0  4  0 96
 0  2   8728   3780   2508 231924    0    0 40616     4 1668   874  0  5  0 95
 0  2   8728   3668   2276 232416    0    0 40740    20 1668   978  0  4  0 96
 0  3   8728   3660   2192 232668   40    0 35296    12 1603   904  0  4  0 95
 0  5   8728   3612   1964 231672    0    0 26220 18572 1497  1381  0 15  0 85
 0  5   8728   2100   1732 233584    0    0 25232  8696 1497   867  0  3 16 81
 0  5   8728   3664   1204 232424    0    0 27668  8696 1533   787  0  3  0 97
 1  4   8728   2432    792 234108    0    0 27160  8696 1527   965  0  3  0 97
 0  6   8728   2208    760 234436    0    0 25904  9584 1513   856  0  3  0 97
 2  6   8728   3776    760 233148    0    0 27776  8716 1537   880  0  3  0 97
 0  6   8728   2204    624 234968    0    0 27924  8812 1541   991  0  4  0 96
 0  4   8716   2508    600 234740    0    0 28188  8216 1537  1038  0  4  0 96
 0  4   8716   4072    532 233316    0   16 25624  9644 1515   896  0  3  0 97
 0  4   8716   3740    548 233624    0    0 27548  8696 1528   908  0  3  0 97



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