Re: Which I/O scheduler is Fedora switching to in 4.21? mq-deadline or BFQ?

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:07:49 -0500
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for your insight.  Doesn't look good for my use of BFQ.

> Note that you can change the current I/O scheduler for any block
> device by echo-ing into /sys/block/<dev>/queue/scheduler.  Cat-ing
> that file will give you the list of available schedulers.

That's part of the problem.  BFQ doesn't appear in the list of
available schedulers.  When I cat that location for my disks, I see
[noop].  Since CFQ does appear there if it is compiled into the kernel,
I'll have to look into what is done for CFQ and see how hard it would
be to patch the kernel to repeat that behavior for BFQ.

My use case in not mq, so after reading one of the links in this
thread about performance, I saw that BFQ gave ~20 to 30 % boost in
disk io performance, and enhanced low latency performance (desktop
responsiveness) for single queue. That's what I want to capture by using
BFQ.  I wonder if that is my problem.  From what Chris said, an mq
scheduler is required in order to use BFQ, whether it is for mq or
single queue use.  I'll try that.  I normally use deadline and CFQ for
scheduling.  Back to the compiler.

I'm surprised this is so difficult.  It's been in the kernel since the
2.x series, and usually the configuration options are excellent for
allowing variation in how the kernel is configured.

On the plus side, I notice only slight degradation in behavior using
noop scheduling.  :-)  Maybe I should just skip scheduling. :-D
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