Switching to MQ by default may generate some bug reports

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Aug 03 2017 - 04:51:30 EST


Hi Christoph,

I know the reasons for switching to MQ by default but just be aware that it's
not without hazards albeit it the biggest issues I've seen are switching
CFQ to BFQ. On my home grid, there is some experimental automatic testing
running every few weeks searching for regressions. Yesterday, it noticed
that creating some work files for a postgres simulator called pgioperf
was 38.33% slower and it auto-bisected to the switch to MQ. This is just
linearly writing two files for testing on another benchmark and is not
remarkable. The relevant part of the report is

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