There have been numerous reports of problems with nbd and cfq. Deadline gives better performance for nbd, anyway, so let's use it by default. Signed-Off-By: Paul Clements --- ./drivers/block/nbd.c.max_nbd_killed 2008-02-07 16:46:24.000000000 -0500 +++ ./drivers/block/nbd.c 2008-02-08 11:38:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -667,6 +667,7 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void) put_disk(disk); goto out; } + elevator_init(disk->queue, "deadline"); } if (register_blkdev(NBD_MAJOR, "nbd")) {