From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
seelam@cs.utep.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fall back io scheduler ( Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15?)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:49:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116194907.GO3945@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137440735.3724.17.camel@dyn9047017067.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 09:43 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 2.6.14, the
> > > > fall back io scheduler (if the chosen io scheduler is not found) is set
> > > > to the default io scheduler (anticipatory, in this case), but since
> > > > 2.6.15-rc1, this semanistic is changed to fall back to noop.
> > >
> > > OK. And I assume that AS wasn't compiled, so that's why it fell back?
> > >
> > > I actually thought that elevator= got removed, now we have
> > > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler. But I guess that's not very useful with
> > > CONFIG_SYSFS=n.
> > >
> > > > Is there any reason to fall back to noop instead of as? It seems
> > > > anticipatory is much better than noop for ext3 with large sequential
> > > > write tests (i.e, 1G dd test) ...
> > >
> > > I suspect that was an accident. Jens?
> >
> > It is, it makes more sense to fallback to the default of course.
> >
>
> How about this one?
>
>
> In the case the chosen io scheduler (elevator = "xxx") is not on the
> registered list, fall back to default scheduler makes more sense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
I think you just recreated an identical patch to the one I added this
morning:
http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7bfcf7cbd58d2a64aa46f3b4bec921e346e604f
:-)
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-05 3:51 ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies Lee Revell
2005-04-05 4:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05 6:10 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-05 16:38 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-06 5:35 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-06 9:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-06 16:53 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-06 18:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-06 19:03 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-07 8:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-07 13:08 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-07 19:16 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-07 23:37 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-08 14:40 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-08 16:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-08 18:10 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-08 18:12 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-11 11:48 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-11 18:38 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-11 19:12 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-11 19:22 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-11 19:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-12 6:41 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-12 11:18 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-12 23:27 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-13 10:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
[not found] ` <1113597161.3899.80.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2005-04-18 18:00 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-18 21:56 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2005-04-22 22:10 ` [RFC][PATCH] Reduce ext3 allocate-with-reservation lock latencies Mingming Cao
2005-04-28 3:45 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-28 7:37 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-28 16:12 ` Lee Revell
2005-04-28 18:34 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 6:18 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-28 19:14 ` [RFC] Adding multiple block allocation to current ext3 Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 13:52 ` [Ext2-devel] [RFC] Adding multiple block allocation Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-29 17:10 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 19:42 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-29 21:12 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 21:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-30 16:00 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-29 18:45 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-04-29 23:22 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-30 16:10 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30 17:11 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30 18:07 ` Mingming Cao
2005-05-02 4:46 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30 16:52 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30 0:33 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-30 0:44 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-30 17:03 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-01-10 23:26 ` [PATCH 0/5] multiple block allocation to current ext3 Mingming Cao
2006-01-11 5:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 19:17 ` Mingming Cao
2006-01-11 19:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 21:31 ` Mingming Cao
2006-01-14 1:12 ` Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15? Mingming Cao
2006-01-14 1:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-14 5:22 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-16 8:43 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-16 19:45 ` [PATCH] Fall back io scheduler ( Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15?) Mingming Cao
2006-01-16 19:49 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-16 19:57 ` Mingming Cao
2006-01-19 19:37 ` Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15? Nate Diller
2006-01-20 8:10 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-16 19:38 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 6:28 ` [PATCH] Reduce ext3 allocate-with-reservation lock latencies Mingming Cao
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