System and method for priority orchestration and scheduling of different background operations

A computer program product residing on a computer readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon which, when executed across one or more processors, causes at least a portion of the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• receiving an indication about an amount of background IOs a background scheduler is capable of performing on a plurality of applications, wherein the indication is based upon, at least in part, one of host IO latency and a rate of the host IO latency being at one of a plurality of levels;
• determining one or more applications of the plurality of applications on which to perform the background IOs;
• and
• scheduling the background IO applications to be performed on the one or more applications of the plurality of applications based upon, at least in part, one of the host IO latency and the rate of the host IO latency being at one of the plurality of levels.

A computing system including one or more processors and one or more memories configured to perform operations comprising:

• receiving an indication about an amount of background IOs a background scheduler is capable of performing on a plurality of applications, wherein the indication is based upon, at least in part, one of host IO latency and a rate of the host IO latency being at one of a plurality of levels;
• determining one or more applications of the plurality of applications on which to perform the background IOs;
• and
• scheduling the background IO applications to be performed on the one or more applications of the plurality of applications based upon, at least in part, one of the host IO latency and the rate of the host IO latency being at one of the plurality of levels.