Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:37:20 -0700 | | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/2] Remove Deadline I/O scheduler |
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:30:48 -0400 Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:57:32PM -0700, Nate Diller wrote: > > This patch removes the Deadline I/O scheduler. Performance-wise, it > > should be superceeded by the Elevator I/O scheduler in the following > > patch. I would be very ineterested in hearing about any workloads or > > benchmarks where Deadline is a substantial improvement over Elevator, > > in throughput, fairness, latency, anything. > > Its somewhat hard for folks to offer comparative benchmarks when you > remove something. Without any numbers at all showing why your elevator > is superior, removing anything seems very premature. > > I'm also not convinced that removing an elevator at all is a good idea, > as it'll cause regressions for anyone who has boot scripts that set > certain mounts to use deadline for eg.
Shouldn't the usual feature-removal in N months be used here? if at all. (Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt)
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