Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265564AbTGLMzr (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:55:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265576AbTGLMzr (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:55:47 -0400 Received: from tartu.cyber.ee ([193.40.6.68]:24073 "EHLO tartu.cyber.ee") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265564AbTGLMzo (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:55:44 -0400 From: Meelis Roos To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' In-Reply-To: <20030711140219.GB16433@suse.de> User-Agent: tin/1.5.19-20030610 ("Darts") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.18 (i586)) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:10:26 +0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 28 elvtune is mentioned here... DJ> - Several different IO elevators are available to match different types DJ> of workload. You can select which one to use with elvtune. but deprecated here: DJ> Deprecated. DJ> ~~~~~~~~~~~ DJ> - usbdevfs will be going away in 2.7. The same filesystem can DJ> be mounted as 'usbfs' in recent 2.4 kernels, and in 2.5.52 DJ> and above, which is what the filesystem will furthermore be DJ> known as. DJ> - elvtune is deprecated (as are the ioctl's it used). DJ> Instead, the io scheduler tunables are exported in sysfs (see below) DJ> in the /sys/block//iosched directory. DJ> Jens wrote a document explaining the tunables of the new scheduler at DJ> http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-44/att-deadline-iosched.txt Maybe just suggest the sysfs interface at once and not mention elvtune? -- Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/