linux-kernel - Re: Switching to MQ by default may generate some bug reports

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Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 19:35:32 +0200
From:   Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
To:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Switching to MQ by default may generate some bug reports


> Il giorno 05 ago 2017, alle ore 13:54, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net> ha scritto:
> ...
> 
>> In addition, as for coverage, we made the empiric assumption that
>> start-up time measured with each of the above easy-to-benchmark
>> applications gives an idea of the time that it would take with any
>> application of the same size and complexity.  User feedback confirmed
>> this assumptions so far.  Of course there may well be exceptions.
>> 
> 
> FWIW, I also have anecdotal evidence from at least one user that using
> BFQ is way better on their desktop than CFQ ever was even under the best
> of circumstances. I've had problems directly measuring it empirically but
> this was also the first time I switched on BFQ to see what fell out so
> it's early days yet.
> 

Yeah, I'm constantly trying (without great success so far :) ) to turn
this folklore into shared, repeatable tests and numbers.  The latter
could then be reliably evaluated, questioned or defended.

Thanks,
Paolo

> -- 
> Mel Gorman
> SUSE Labs