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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-06-14 15:41:18 -1000 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-06-14 15:41:18 -1000 |
commit | 7b10315128c697b32c3a920cd79a8301c7466637 (patch) | |
tree | fed365c173983187110052f6674b0747d4941f40 /Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt | |
parent | 5dcedf4600f8708150b89485d25cead88bff08a4 (diff) | |
parent | 1d0c06513bd44e724f572ef9c932d0c889d183c6 (diff) | |
download | linux-7b10315128c697b32c3a920cd79a8301c7466637.tar.bz2 |
Merge tag 'for-linus-20190614' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
- Remove references to old schedulers for the scheduler switching and
blkio controller documentation (Andreas)
- Kill duplicate check for report zone for null_blk (Chaitanya)
- Two bcache fixes (Coly)
- Ensure that mq-deadline is selected if zoned block device is enabled,
as we need that to support them (Damien)
- Fix io_uring memory leak (Eric)
- ps3vram fallout from LBDAF removal (Geert)
- Redundant blk-mq debugfs debugfs_create return check cleanup (Greg)
- Extend NOPLM quirk for ST1000LM024 drives (Hans)
- Remove error path warning that can now trigger after the queue
removal/addition fixes (Ming)
* tag 'for-linus-20190614' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block/ps3vram: Use %llu to format sector_t after LBDAF removal
libata: Extend quirks for the ST1000LM024 drives with NOLPM quirk
bcache: only set BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING when cached device attached
bcache: fix stack corruption by PRECEDING_KEY()
blk-mq: remove WARN_ON(!q->elevator) from blk_mq_sched_free_requests
blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ
block/switching-sched.txt: Update to blk-mq schedulers
null_blk: remove duplicate check for report zone
blk-mq: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
io_uring: fix memory leak of UNIX domain socket inode
block: force select mq-deadline for zoned block devices
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt index 3b2612e342f1..7977f6fb8b20 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt @@ -13,11 +13,9 @@ you can do so by typing: # mount none /sys -t sysfs -As of the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, it is now possible to change the -IO scheduler for a given block device on the fly (thus making it possible, -for instance, to set the CFQ scheduler for the system default, but -set a specific device to use the deadline or noop schedulers - which -can improve that device's throughput). +It is possible to change the IO scheduler for a given block device on +the fly to select one of mq-deadline, none, bfq, or kyber schedulers - +which can improve that device's throughput. To set a specific scheduler, simply do this: @@ -30,8 +28,8 @@ The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets: -# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -noop deadline [cfq] -# echo deadline > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -noop [deadline] cfq +# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler +[mq-deadline] kyber bfq none +# echo none >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler +# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler +[none] mq-deadline kyber bfq |