linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Block pull request for- 4.11-rc1

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Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:04:35 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     "linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Block pull request for- 4.11-rc1

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> wrote:
> On 02/22/2017 11:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> OK, so here's what I'll do:
>
> 1) We'll kill the default scheduler choices. sq blk-mq will default to
>    mq-deadline, mq blk-mq will default to "none" (at least for now, until
>    the new scheduler is done).
> 2) The individual schedulers will be y/m/n selectable, just like any
>    other driver.

Yes. That makes sense as options. I can (or, perhaps even more
importantly, a distro can) answer those kinds of questions.

                   Linus