s for WRITE_SYNC bios and the other is for regular priority bios. The IO submission threads used to process all of the WRITE_SYNC bios first and then switch to the regular bios. This commit makes sure we don't completely starve the regular bios by rotating between the two lists. WRITE_SYNC bios are still favored 2:1 over the regular bios, and this tries to run in batches to avoid seeking. Benchmarking shows this eliminates stalls during streaming buffered writes on both multi-device and single device filesystems. If the regular bios starve, the system can end up with a large amount of ram pinned down in writeback pages. If we are a little more fair between the two classes, we're able to keep throughput up and make progress on the bulk of our dirty ram. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason föÒ”+x