linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] block: deprecate choosing elevator via boot param

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Message-ID: <3efb4cb6-a545-9e1e-8c6e-c2faee7dd8f4@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:24:28 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] block: deprecate choosing elevator via boot param

On 08/14/2017 03:27 AM, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
> Setting I/O scheduler via kernel command line is not flexible enough
> anymore. Different schedulers might be desirable for different types
> of devices (SSDs and HDDs, for instance). Moreover, setting elevator
> while using blk-mq framework does not work in this way already.
> 
> This commit enables warning if user specifies "elevator" boot param.
> Removing this option at all might be considered in some future.

Not a huge fan of doing it like this, it'll just add a bunch of noise to
the dmesg output that people will ignore. It doesn't bring us closer to
being able to remove the option.

I think we should just let it die over time. This will happen naturally
since the blk-mq scheduling framework does not support it. Once we have
everything converted, the option will end up doing nothing. Then we can
eventually kill it.

-- 
Jens Axboe