Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2017-07-17

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

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
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