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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: default elevator=noop for virtio block devices?
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:01:50 +0200
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On 03/09/2011 11:42 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> would it make sense to make elevator=noop the default
> for virtio block devices? Or would you recommend to
> set this on the kvm server instead?
>

I think leaving the defaults is best.  The elevator on the guest serves 
to schedule I/O among processes in the guest, and the elevator on the 
host partitions I/O among the guests.

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