Re: [RFC 0/3]block: An IOPS based ioscheduler

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Sun Jan 15 2012 - 17:33:13 EST


On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 09:26:45AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:

[..]
> > Could you for example compare a latency of reads while running heavy
> > background writing between CFQ and your scheduler? Loads like this where
> > original motivation for CFQ I believe.
> CFQ supports preemption, FIOPS doesn't, so I suppose read latency of CFQ
> is still better in such workload.
> In this initial post, I just want to demonstrate the basic idea of the
> ioscheduler. I'll post more data for both latency and throughput in next
> round.

I think before numbers what will be more helpful to know is that what are
you trying to achieve and why existing CFQ code can not do that with little
modification.

Thanks
Vivek
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/