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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Feb 22 2017 - 14:19:51 EST


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> 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