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From: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
To: Joe Ceklosky <jfceklosky@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org >> IDE/ATA development list"
	<linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SSD slowdown with 3.3.X?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:43:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F921ECF.2080303@teksavvy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F921E18.6000301@teksavvy.com>

On 12-04-20 10:40 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 12-04-19 10:07 PM, Joe Ceklosky wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the info, but nothing like that shows up:
>>
>>
>> [jceklosk@neptune tmp]$ cat c-3.2.15
>> noop deadline [cfq]
>> noop deadline [cfq]
>>
>>
>> [jceklosk@neptune tmp]$ cat c-3.3.2
>> noop deadline [cfq]
>> noop deadline [cfq]
> 
> 
> Well, the stuff you posted (above) shows that cfq is being used
> instead of noop.  For SSDs, noop is the more natural choice,
> and used to be the default in the kernel for a while.
> I wonder when that changed?

Looking into the block layer now, I see that "cfq" at some point
became "SSD aware", which is probably when the default io scheduler
for SSDs changed back to cfq from noop.

Not 100% sure, but that's how it appears now.
I still have my systems set it to noop when an SSD is detected.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-21  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-19  2:15 SSD slowdown with 3.3.X? Joe Ceklosky
2012-04-19  3:13 ` Mark Lord
2012-04-20 15:23   ` Jeff Moyer
     [not found]   ` <4F90C4CF.1010000@gmail.com>
2012-04-21  2:40     ` Mark Lord
2012-04-21  2:43       ` Mark Lord [this message]
2012-04-21  3:53         ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-21 11:45           ` cwillu
2012-04-21 18:30             ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-23 12:44               ` Mark Lord
2012-04-25  0:22                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-04-23 14:11         ` Jeff Moyer

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