The ongoing thread reminds me of a simple question I've had since I first read about linux' mutiple I/O schedulers. Why is the choice of I/O scheduler global to the whole kernel, rather than per-device or similar?
Consider a system with both traditional rotating disks and SSDs - not at all far fetched. An appropriate I/O scheduling algorithm for rotating disks is likely to do a lot of work that's useless for SSDs. Why require that the same algorithms be used for both? -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens ar...@worldash.org) _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
