Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 09/22] block, cfq: replace CFQ with the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler | From | "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <> | Date | Fri, 4 Mar 2016 13:10:31 -0500 |
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On 2016-03-04 12:39, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:29:39AM +0700, Linus Walleij wrote: >> Hi Tejun, >> >> I'm doing a summary of this discussion as a part of presenting >> Linaro's involvement in Paolo's work. So I try to understand things. > > Btw, can someone explain why you guys waste so much time hacking and > arguing about a legacy codebase (old request code and I/O schedulers) > that everyone would really like to see disappear. Why don't you > spend your time on blk-mq where you have an entirely clean slate > for scheduling? > 1. This all started long before blk-mq hit mainline. 2. There's still a decent amount of block drivers that don't support blk-mq. Last time I looked (around the time 4.4 came out), I saw the following that either obviously don't support it, or are ambiguous as to whether they support it or not. Here's a list of just the ones I know are being used on existing systems running relatively recent kernel versions, not including any of the MTD stuff: * fd * MD * bcache * mmcblk * nbd * dasd * drbd * rbd * aoe * xvd (I know there were patches for this floating around, but I never saw if they got merged or not)
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