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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux-Kernal <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:07:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14538128.U7izDYD32A@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPDyKFoi64Q0H9x2F35oY85PMDNq4hRsmqGYiP+En+qtQ4+Bag@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:13:08 PM CEST Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 27 October 2016 at 19:43, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> > On 10/27/2016 11:32 AM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I'm hesistant to add a new scheduler because it's very easy to add, very
> >>> difficult to get rid of. If we do add BFQ as a legacy scheduler now,
> >>> it'll take us years and years to get rid of it again. We should be
> >>> moving towards LESS moving parts in the legacy path, not more.
> >>
> >>
> >> Jens, I think you are wrong here and let me try to elaborate on why.
> >>
> >> 1)
> >> We already have legacy schedulers like CFQ, DEADLINE, etc - and most
> >> block device drivers are still using the legacy blk interface.
> >
> >
> > I don't think that's an accurate statement. In terms of coverage, most
> > drivers do support blk-mq. Anything SCSI, nvme, virtio-blk, SATA runs on
> > (or can run on) top of blk-mq.
> 
> Well, I just used "git grep" and found that many drivers didn't use
> blkmq. Apologize if I gave the wrong impressions.

To clarify, this seems to be a complete list:

$ git grep -wl '\(__\|\)blk_\(fetch\|end\|start\)_request' | xargs grep -L blk_mq
Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
block/blk-tag.c
block/bsg-lib.c
drivers/block/DAC960.c
drivers/block/amiflop.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
drivers/block/ataflop.c
drivers/block/cciss.c
drivers/block/floppy.c
drivers/block/hd.c
drivers/block/mg_disk.c
drivers/block/osdblk.c
drivers/block/paride/pcd.c
drivers/block/paride/pd.c
drivers/block/paride/pf.c
drivers/block/ps3disk.c
drivers/block/skd_main.c
drivers/block/sunvdc.c
drivers/block/swim.c
drivers/block/swim3.c
drivers/block/sx8.c
drivers/block/xsysace.c
drivers/block/z2ram.c
drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-io.c
drivers/ide/ide-pm.c
drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c
drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
drivers/mmc/card/block.c
drivers/mmc/card/queue.c
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
drivers/s390/block/scm_blk.c
drivers/sbus/char/jsflash.c
drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c
drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
samples/bpf/tracex3_kern.c

>From what I can tell, most of these are hopelessly obsolete, but
there are some notable exceptions: aoe, osdblk, skd, sunvdc, mtdblk,
mmc, dasd and scm. I've never used any of the first four, but the
last four of the list are certainly important (for very different
reasons).

	Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-26  9:27 [PATCH 00/14] introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:27 ` [PATCH 01/14] block, bfq: " Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:27 ` [PATCH 02/14] block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:27 ` [PATCH 03/14] block, bfq: improve throughput boosting Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:27 ` [PATCH 04/14] block, bfq: modify the peak-rate estimator Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:27 ` [PATCH 05/14] block, bfq: add more fairness with writes and slow processes Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:27 ` [PATCH 06/14] block, bfq: improve responsiveness Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:28 ` [PATCH 07/14] block, bfq: reduce I/O latency for soft real-time applications Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:28 ` [PATCH 08/14] block, bfq: preserve a low latency also with NCQ-capable drives Paolo Valente
2016-10-26  9:28 ` [PATCH 09/14] block, bfq: reduce latency during request-pool saturation Paolo Valente
2016-10-26 10:19 ` [PATCH 00/14] introduce the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler as an extra scheduler Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-26 11:34   ` Jan Kara
2016-10-26 15:05     ` Bart Van Assche
2016-10-26 15:13       ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-26 15:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-26 15:32           ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-26 16:04             ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-26 16:12               ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27  9:26                 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-27 14:34                   ` Grozdan
2016-10-27 15:55                     ` Heinz Diehl
2016-10-27 16:28                     ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27 16:26                   ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-28  7:59                     ` Jan Kara
2016-10-28 14:10                       ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27 17:32                 ` Ulf Hansson
2016-10-27 17:43                   ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27 18:13                     ` Ulf Hansson
2016-10-27 18:21                       ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27 19:34                         ` Ulf Hansson
2016-10-27 21:08                           ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-27 22:27                             ` Linus Walleij
2016-10-28  9:32                               ` Linus Walleij
2016-10-28 14:22                                 ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-28 20:38                                   ` Linus Walleij
2016-10-28 15:29                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-28 21:09                                   ` Linus Walleij
2016-10-28 15:30                                 ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-28 15:58                                   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2016-10-28 16:05                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-28 17:17                                     ` Mark Brown
2016-10-28 14:07                               ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-28  6:36                             ` Ulf Hansson
2016-10-28 14:17                               ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-28 17:12                                 ` Mark Brown
2016-10-27 19:41                         ` Mark Brown
2016-10-27 19:45                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-27 22:01                             ` Mark Brown
2016-10-28 12:07                       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-10-28 12:17                         ` Richard Weinberger
2016-10-29  5:38                 ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-29 13:12                   ` Bart Van Assche
2016-10-29 14:12                   ` Jens Axboe
2016-10-30  3:06                     ` Paolo Valente
2016-10-26 12:37   ` Paolo Valente
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-29 17:08 Manuel Krause
2016-10-30 17:48 Manuel Krause

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