On Mon, Jan 16 2006, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 09:43 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Mingming Cao <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 2.6.14, the
> > > > fall back io scheduler (if the chosen io scheduler is not found) is set
> > > > to the default io scheduler (anticipatory, in this case), but since
> > > > 2.6.15-rc1, this semanistic is changed to fall back to noop.
> > >
> > > OK. And I assume that AS wasn't compiled, so that's why it fell back?
> > >
> > > I actually thought that elevator= got removed, now we have
> > > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler. But I guess that's not very useful with
> > > CONFIG_SYSFS=n.
> > >
> > > > Is there any reason to fall back to noop instead of as? It seems
> > > > anticipatory is much better than noop for ext3 with large sequential
> > > > write tests (i.e, 1G dd test) ...
> > >
> > > I suspect that was an accident. Jens?
> >
> > It is, it makes more sense to fallback to the default of course.
> >
>
> How about this one?
>
>
> In the case the chosen io scheduler (elevator = "xxx") is not on the
> registered list, fall back to default scheduler makes more sense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <[email protected]>
I think you just recreated an identical patch to the one I added this
morning:
http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7bfcf7cbd58d2a64aa46f3b4bec921e346e604f
:-)
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Jens Axboe
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