linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular

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Message-ID: <20071127070912.GB1735@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:09:12 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular

On 25-11-2007 18:22, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
...
>> Is there any technical reason why we need 4 different schedulers at all?
> 
> Until we have the perfect scheduler :-)

IMHO this is not enough yet. There is something called "the right
of choice", and, it seems, things are usually far from perfect
where this right is not respected.

Regards,
Jarek P.
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