Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030246AbWHDEYQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 00:24:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030248AbWHDEYQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 00:24:16 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([62.242.22.158]:45321 "EHLO kernel.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030246AbWHDEYP (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 00:24:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 06:24:55 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Nate Diller Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] [1/2] Remove Deadline I/O scheduler Message-ID: <20060804042454.GN16754@suse.de> References: <5c49b0ed0608031557n405196ack3fa2024aae8a9475@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0608031557n405196ack3fa2024aae8a9475@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 18 On Thu, Aug 03 2006, Nate Diller wrote: > This patch removes the Deadline I/O scheduler. Performance-wise, it > should be superceeded by the Elevator I/O scheduler in the following > patch. I would be very ineterested in hearing about any workloads or > benchmarks where Deadline is a substantial improvement over Elevator, > in throughput, fairness, latency, anything. Strong NAK. deadline is a simple, working scheduler. Why on earth would you want to remove it? -- Jens Axboe - 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/