Re: [PATCH RFC 09/22] block, cfq: replace CFQ with the BFQ-v0 I/O scheduler

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Mar 04 2016 - 12:39:52 EST


On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 12:29:39AM +0700, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Tejun,
>
> I'm doing a summary of this discussion as a part of presenting
> Linaro's involvement in Paolo's work. So I try to understand things.

Btw, can someone explain why you guys waste so much time hacking and
arguing about a legacy codebase (old request code and I/O schedulers)
that everyone would really like to see disappear. Why don't you
spend your time on blk-mq where you have an entirely clean slate
for scheduling?