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Support re-prioritizing asynchronous prefetches

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Support re-prioritizing asynchronous prefetches

When sequential scrubs were merged, all calls to arc_read()
(including prefetch IOs) were given ZIO_PRIORITY_ASYNC_READ.
Unfortunately, this behaves badly with an existing issue where
prefetch IOs cannot be re-prioritized after the issue. The
result is that synchronous reads end up in the same vdev_queue
as the scrub IOs and can have (in some workloads) multiple
seconds of latency.

This patch incorporates 2 changes. The first ensures that all
scrub IOs are given ZIO_PRIORITY_SCRUB to allow the vdev_queue
code to differentiate between these I/Os and user prefetches.
Second, this patch introduces zio_change_priority() to provide
the missing capability to upgrade a zio's priority.

Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tom Caputi <tcaputi@datto.com>
Closes #6921
Closes #6926

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Tom Caputi <tcaputi@datto.com>Authored on Dec 21 2017, 5:13 PM
Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>Committed on Dec 21 2017, 5:13 PM
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rG993669a7bf17: vdev_id: new slot type ses
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