Linus has merged the anticipator scheduler. A few things to note on this:
- For some workloads it is around 10% slower than deadline. Most notably
database workloads which seek all over the disk performing reads and
synchronous writes.
Sorry, we just weren't able to get the last little bit back.
But for other workloads (reading lots of filesystem objects when
there's a lot of writeout around, when there's a streaming read, etc) it
is up to 1000% faster. I believe it is a better all-round IO scheduler.
Unless Nick pulls a big rabbit out of his hat, database people will
need to boot their kernels with `elevator=deadline' to get the last bit
of performance back.
- These changes have been well tested, but it is five months work and
over 100 patches. There's probably a bug or two. If you suspect that
something has gone wrong at the block layer (lots of tasks stuck in D
state) then please retest with `elevator=deadline'.
Thanks.
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