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From:   Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:58:04 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Default to build the BFQ I/O scheduler
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc:     linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
        Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 at 16:48, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>
> On 1/27/23 8:43=E2=80=AFAM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> > Today BFQ is widely used and it's also the default choice for some of t=
he
> > single-queue-based storage devices. Therefore, let's make it more
> > convenient to build it as default, along with the other I/O schedulers.
> >
> > Let's also build the cgroup support for BFQ as default, as it's likely =
that
> > it's wanted too, assuming CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP is also set, of course.
>
> This won't make much of a difference, when the symbols are already in
> the .config. So let's please not. It may be a 'y' for you by default,
> but for lots of others it is not. Don't impose it on folks.

This isn't about folkz, but HW. :-)

I was thinking that it makes sense for the similar reason to why kyber
and deadline are being built as default. Or are there any particular
other reasons to why we build those in as default, but not BFQ?

Kind regards
Uffe