Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Paa Paa wrote: > >> The default IO scheduler in 2.6.18 will be CFQ (Complete Fair Queuing) > >> instead of AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) as described here: > >> http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_18. I tried to find (here, at > >> lkml) the discussion about this change with no luck. > > > > That wiki document nicely shows the advantage of the scheduler, namely > > that you have "ionice", which isn't possible for AS or Deadline > > Schedulers - this allows the operating system to run processes like > > updatedb with "nice I/O", meaning these hold when you're doing other > > I/O. > > Should there be a default scheduler per filesystem? As some filesystems > may perform better/worse with one over another? It's currently perDevice, and should probably be extended to perMount. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
