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From: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@suse.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] block/switching-sched.txt: Update to blk-mq schedulers
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:50:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190612065009.GA11361@suselix> (raw)


Remove references to CFQ and legacy block layer which are gone.
Update example with what's available under blk-mq.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@suse.com>
---
 Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt
index 3b2612e342f1..7977f6fb8b20 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt
@@ -13,11 +13,9 @@ you can do so by typing:
 
 # mount none /sys -t sysfs
 
-As of the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, it is now possible to change the
-IO scheduler for a given block device on the fly (thus making it possible,
-for instance, to set the CFQ scheduler for the system default, but
-set a specific device to use the deadline or noop schedulers - which
-can improve that device's throughput).
+It is possible to change the IO scheduler for a given block device on
+the fly to select one of mq-deadline, none, bfq, or kyber schedulers -
+which can improve that device's throughput.
 
 To set a specific scheduler, simply do this:
 
@@ -30,8 +28,8 @@ The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing
 a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names
 will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets:
 
-# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
-noop deadline [cfq]
-# echo deadline > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
-# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
-noop [deadline] cfq
+# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
+[mq-deadline] kyber bfq none
+# echo none >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
+# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
+[none] mq-deadline kyber bfq
-- 
2.13.7

             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-12  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-12  6:50 Andreas Herrmann [this message]
2019-06-13  8:59 ` [PATCH] block/switching-sched.txt: Update to blk-mq schedulers Jens Axboe

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