Re: [PATCH] elevator: allow specifying elevator by config boot param for blk-mq devices

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> Il giorno 13 lug 2017, alle ore 16:02, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> 
> On 07/13/2017 04:11 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:51:33PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> No, that boot option was a mistake, let's not propagate that to mq
>>> scheduling as well.
>> 
>> Can you please explain why? I as well have requests from our users to
>> select the mq schedulers on the command line.
> 
> Because it sucks as an interface - there's no way to apply different
> settings to different devices, and using the kernel command line to
> control something like this is ugly. It never should have been done.
> 
> The sysfs interface, either manually, scripted, or through udev,
> makes a lot more sense.
> 

One doubt: with the new interface, and using, I guess, udev, is it
still possible to control which I/O scheduler is actually used during
all the boot process, or at least almost all of it?

Thanks,
Paolo

> -- 
> Jens Axboe
> 





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