linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/2] Remove Deadline I/O scheduler

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Message-ID: <20060804042454.GN16754@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 4 Aug 2006 06:24:55 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>
To:	Nate Diller <nate.diller@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/2] Remove Deadline I/O scheduler

On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Nate Diller wrote:
> This patch removes the Deadline I/O scheduler.  Performance-wise, it
> should be superceeded by the Elevator I/O scheduler in the following
> patch.  I would be very ineterested in hearing about any workloads or
> benchmarks where Deadline is a substantial improvement over Elevator,
> in throughput, fairness, latency, anything.

Strong NAK. deadline is a simple, working scheduler. Why on earth would
you want to remove it?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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