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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling [V2]
On 2011-08-02 19:40, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> There are always questions about why CFQ is idling on various conditions.
> Recent ones is Christoph asking again why to idle on REQ_NOIDLE. His
> assertion is that XFS is relying more and more on workqueues and is
> concerned that CFQ idling on IO from every workqueue will impact
> XFS badly.
>
> So he suggested that I add some more documentation about CFQ idling
> and that can provide more clarity on the topic and also gives an
> opprotunity to poke a hole in theory and lead to improvements.
>
> So here is my attempt at that. Any comments are welcome.

Applied, thanks.

--
Jens Axboe



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