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block: remove the anticipatory IO scheduler
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AS is mostly a subset of CFQ, so there's little point in still
providing this separate IO scheduler. Hopefully at some point we
can get down to one single IO scheduler again, at least this brings
us closer by having only one intelligent IO scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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Jens Axboe committed Oct 3, 2009
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22 changes: 4 additions & 18 deletions block/Kconfig.iosched
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that do their own scheduling and require only minimal assistance from
the kernel.

config IOSCHED_AS
tristate "Anticipatory I/O scheduler"
default y
---help---
The anticipatory I/O scheduler is generally a good choice for most
environments, but is quite large and complex when compared to the
deadline I/O scheduler, it can also be slower in some cases
especially some database loads.

config IOSCHED_DEADLINE
tristate "Deadline I/O scheduler"
default y
---help---
The deadline I/O scheduler is simple and compact, and is often as
good as the anticipatory I/O scheduler, and in some database
workloads, better. In the case of a single process performing I/O to
a disk at any one time, its behaviour is almost identical to the
anticipatory I/O scheduler and so is a good choice.
The deadline I/O scheduler is simple and compact. It will provide
CSCAN service with FIFO expiration of requests, switching to
a new point in the service tree and doing a batch of IO from there
in case of expiry.

config IOSCHED_CFQ
tristate "CFQ I/O scheduler"
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Select the I/O scheduler which will be used by default for all
block devices.

config DEFAULT_AS
bool "Anticipatory" if IOSCHED_AS=y

config DEFAULT_DEADLINE
bool "Deadline" if IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y

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config DEFAULT_IOSCHED
string
default "anticipatory" if DEFAULT_AS
default "deadline" if DEFAULT_DEADLINE
default "cfq" if DEFAULT_CFQ
default "noop" if DEFAULT_NOOP
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Expand Up @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLOCK) := elevator.o blk-core.o blk-tag.o blk-sysfs.o \

obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG) += bsg.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP) += noop-iosched.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS) += as-iosched.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE) += deadline-iosched.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ) += cfq-iosched.o

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