On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:53:30AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 10:50:53AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Hmmm... the biggest thing is ioscheds. They heavily rely on being > > strongly synchronized and are pretty important for rotating rusts. > > Maybe they can be made to work with blk-mq by forcing single queue or > > something but do we wnat that? > > Jens is planning to add an (optional) I/O scheduler to blk-mq, and > that is indeed required for proper disk support. I don't think there > even is a need to limit it to a single queue technically, although > devices that support multiple queues are unlikely to need I/O > scheduling.
I think what Jens is planning is something really minimal. Things like [cb]fq heavily depend on the old block infrastructure. I don't know. Maybe they can be merged in time but I'm not quite sure we'd have enough pressure to actually do that. Host-granular switching should be good enough, I guess. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/