Re: [PATCH] elevator: allow specifying elevator by config boot param for blk-mq devices
From: Johannes Thumshirn <hidden>
Date: 2017-07-14 06:40:26
From: Johannes Thumshirn <hidden>
Date: 2017-07-14 06:40:26
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 08:02:41AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
Because it sucks as an interface - there's no way to apply different settings to different devices, and using the kernel command line to control something like this is ugly. It never should have been done. The sysfs interface, either manually, scripted, or through udev, makes a lot more sense.
Not that I disagree with your reasons, but not being able to select a mq scheduler confuses quite some users out there. Byte, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@suse.de +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N�rnberg GF: Felix Imend�rffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG N�rnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850