Comment out Kirks io-request priority hack until we can do this in a

civilized way which doesn't cause grief.

The problem is that it is not generally safe to cast a "struct bio
*" to a "struct buf *".  Things like ccd, vinum, ata-raid and GEOM
constructs bio's which are not entrails of a struct buf.

Also, curthread may or may not have anything to do with the I/O request
at hand.

The correct solution can either be to tag struct bio's with a
priority derived from the requesting threads nice and have disksort
act on this field, this wouldn't address the "silly-seek syndrome"
where two equal processes bang the diskheads from one edge to the
other of the disk repeatedly.

Alternatively, and probably better: a sleep should be introduced
either at the time the I/O is requested or at the time it is completed
where we can be sure to sleep in the right thread.

The sleep also needs to be in constant timeunits, 1/hz can be practicaly
any sub-second size, at high HZ the current code practically doesn't
do anything.

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