Re: SSD and IO schedulers

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jan 30 2009, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering how IO schedulers such as as-iosched, deadline and
> cfq behave on SSD
> (that have virtually no seek time), from a theoretical point of view.
> How do they affect
> performance on these devices?
> I heard that the noop scheduler is often chosen by owners of EeePcs
> (with a SSD unit).
> They report superior performance by using this (quite simple) scheduler.
> Are there any scientific benchmarks around?

Just recently the io schedulers started checking for SSD devices, so
today it should not matter performance wise (throughput) whether you use
CFQ or NOOP on eg the eeepc. The io scheduler is still quite important
for providing fair access to the device, especially on the cheaper end
of the SSD segment.

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Jens Axboe