iocost: don't let vrate run wild while there's no saturation signal
When the QoS targets are met and nothing is being throttled, there's no way to tell how saturated the underlying device is - it could be almost entirely idle, at the cusp of saturation or anywhere inbetween. Given that there's no information, it's best to keep vrate as-is in this state. Before 7cd806a9 ("iocost: improve nr_lagging handling"), this was the case - if the device isn't missing QoS targets and nothing is being throttled, busy_level was reset to zero. While fixing nr_lagging handling, 7cd806a9 ("iocost: improve nr_lagging handling") broke this. Now, while the device is hitting QoS targets and nothing is being throttled, vrate keeps getting adjusted according to the existing busy_level. This led to vrate keeping climing till it hits max when there's an IO issuer with limited request concurrency if the vrate started low. vrate starts getting adjusted upwards until the issuer can issue IOs w/o being throttled. From th...
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