From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scheduler question 2.6.16.x
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:15:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060425181530.GQ4102@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604251905.19004.nick@linicks.net>
On Tue, Apr 25 2006, Nick Warne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I see in menuconfig I have two options:
>
> <*> Anticipatory I/O scheduler
> <*> Deadline I/O scheduler
>
> Help reveals Anticipatory is pretty good, but make a slightly larger
> kernel - Deadline help says it a good alternative to Anticipatory.
>
> But I can build both in... so I guess then the kernel decides what is
> the best to use? Or should it be so I am only allowed to select one
> or the other and allowing both is an oversight?
See the option no more than two lines down from that, default io
scheduler. Also see Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and/or
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt (elevator=) section.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-25 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-25 18:05 scheduler question 2.6.16.x Nick Warne
2006-04-25 18:15 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-04-25 18:33 ` Nick Warne
2006-04-25 18:51 ` Jens Axboe
2006-04-26 18:09 ` Andre Tomt
2006-04-26 18:33 ` Nick Warne
2006-04-27 21:39 ` Bill Davidsen
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