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Documentation: block: ioprio: Update schedulers

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This doc hasn't been touched in a while, in the meantime some
new io schedulers were added (e.g. all of mq), some with ioprio
support.

Also reword the introduction to remove reference to CFQ and the
limitation that io priorities only work on reads, which is no longer
true.

Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a86cfdc8-016f-40f1-8b58-0cb15d2a792c@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Intro
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With the introduction of cfq v3 (aka cfq-ts or time sliced cfq), basic io
priorities are supported for reads on files. This enables users to io nice
processes or process groups, similar to what has been possible with cpu
scheduling for ages. This document mainly details the current possibilities
with cfq; other io schedulers do not support io priorities thus far.
The io priority feature enables users to io nice processes or process groups,
similar to what has been possible with cpu scheduling for ages. Support for io
priorities is io scheduler dependent and currently supported by bfq and
mq-deadline.
Scheduling classes
------------------
CFQ implements three generic scheduling classes that determine how io is
served for a process.
Three generic scheduling classes are implemented for io priorities that
determine how io is served for a process.
IOPRIO_CLASS_RT: This is the realtime io class. This scheduling class is given
higher priority than any other in the system, processes from this class are