Re: [RESEND][RFC] BFQ I/O Scheduler

[Aaron Carroll]

Paolo Valente wrote:
> In my opinion, the time-slice approach of cfq is definitely better 
> suited than the (sector) budget approach for this type of workloads. On 
> the opposite end, the price of time-slices is unfairness towards, e.g., 
> threads doing sequential accesses. In bfq we were mainly thinking about 

How do you figure that?  This is a situation where time-slices work nicely,
because they implicitly account for the performance penalty of poor access
patterns.  The sequential-accessing processes (and the system overall) ends
up with higher throughput.

-- Aaron

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