On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It's that simple. > > No, it's not that simple at all. Fact is, some optimizations make sense > for some workloads, and some do not. Are you even listening? I'm saying no user can ever give a sane answer to your question. The question is insane and wrong. I already said you can have a dynamic configuration (and maybe even an automatic heuristic - like saying that a ramdisk gets NOOP by default, real hardware does not). But asking a user at kernel config time for a default is insane. If *you* cannot answer it, then the user sure as hell cannot. Other configuration questions have problems too, but at least the question about "should I support ext4" is something a user (or distro) can sanely answer. So your comparisons are pure bullshit. Linus