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

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

Depends on what time horizon and target I'd say. Paolo was in contact with
the MMC/SD subsystem maintainer Ulf Hansson. (e)MMC/SD are both
synchronous command-response-based protocols, and as of today
single-channel. So everone's smartphone and tablet etc are today
single-channel. I don't know if there is even a protocol change coming
to augment this, the only duct-tapeish solution I've heard about is
command queueing which is basically a kind of pipelining of requests.

So: large userbase in all things handheld.

Yours,
Linus Walleij