Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> writes: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:34 AM Jeff Moyer <jmo...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> stan <stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net> writes: >> >> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:24:21 +0100 >> > Tomasz Torcz <to...@pipebreaker.pl> wrote: >> > >> >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 04:30:20PM -0700, stan wrote: >> > >> >> > Enabled deadline and cfq again, but still no bfq available. >> >> > $ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler >> >> > noop deadline [cfq] >> >> >> >> Those are single-queue scheduler. Multiqueue uses different >> >> schedulers: bfq, kyber, mq-deadline. MQ schedulers won't appear on >> >> single-queue devices even if you modprobe such schedulers. >> >> You probably need “scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=y dm_mod.use_blk_mq=y” kernel >> >> commandline options, although I think those are default in recent >> >> kernels. >> > >> > Thanks. I got the impression from the documentation I read that BFQ >> > operated for both mq and single queue. In fact, IIRC it actually >> > degraded mq performance slightly, but enhanced single queue >> > performance. I guess I was wrong. I'll try the above to see if it >> > enables me to use bfq on single queue devices. >> >> Yes, it is confusing. Basically, the block layer (and scsi) support a >> legacy path and multi-queue (blk-mq, scsi-mq). However, even if you are >> using blk-mq and scsi-mq, there are two types of devices: those that >> support a single hardware queue, and those that support multiple >> hardware queues. >> >> So, mq schedulers (such as kyber, mq-deadline and bfq) require blk-mq, >> but they can be used on hardware that supports only a single queue. >> This is the distinction that was being made in the bfq documentation. >> >> Clear as mud? > > In everything I've read, scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1 boot param is required > if kernel config # CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT is not set, and on Fedora > kernels it is not set. So far, when I insmod bfq, that will make it > show up as an option for nvme drives, but not hard drives. I haven't > figured out to make it show up for hard drives.
Can you send me your dmesg output? Thanks! Jeff _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
