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| author | Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> | 2007-10-15 13:22:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2007-10-16 09:59:55 +0200 |
| commit | 23c76983e23628c7762137a00651e3e371aa97d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e335f0eb806b7890542420d6c2f635823d210ff /Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt | |
| parent | 26bbb29a2a4e1491238ae49bf3294955dc0ab662 (diff) | |
Some IO scheduler cleanup in Documentation/block
as-iosched.txt:
o Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
switching-sched.txt file.
o Fixed typo: 'for up time...' -> 'for up to...'
o Added short description of the est_time file.
deadline-iosched.txt:
o Changed IO scheduler selection text to a reference to the
switching-sched.txt file.
o Removed references to non-existent seek-cost and stream_unit.
o Fixed typo: 'write_starved' -> 'writes_starved'
switching-sched.txt:
o Added in boot-time argument to set the default IO scheduler. (From
as-iosched.txt)
o Added in sysfs mount instructions. (From deadline-iosched.txt)
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt index a598fe10a29..738b72be128 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt @@ -20,15 +20,10 @@ actually has a head for each physical device in the logical RAID device. However, setting the antic_expire (see tunable parameters below) produces very similar behavior to the deadline IO scheduler. - Selecting IO schedulers ----------------------- -To choose IO schedulers at boot time, use the argument 'elevator=deadline'. -'noop', 'as' and 'cfq' (the default) are also available. IO schedulers are -assigned globally at boot time only presently. It's also possible to change -the IO scheduler for a determined device on the fly, as described in -Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt. - +Refer to Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt for information on +selecting an io scheduler on a per-device basis. Anticipatory IO scheduler Policies ---------------------------------- @@ -115,7 +110,7 @@ statistics (average think time, average seek distance) on the process that submitted the just completed request are examined. If it seems likely that that process will submit another request soon, and that request is likely to be near the just completed request, then the IO -scheduler will stop dispatching more read requests for up time (antic_expire) +scheduler will stop dispatching more read requests for up to (antic_expire) milliseconds, hoping that process will submit a new request near the one that just completed. If such a request is made, then it is dispatched immediately. If the antic_expire wait time expires, then the IO scheduler @@ -165,3 +160,13 @@ The parameters are: for big seek time devices though not a linear correspondence - most processes have only a few ms thinktime. +In addition to the tunables above there is a read-only file named est_time +which, when read, will show: + + - The probability of a task exiting without a cooperating task + submitting an anticipated IO. + + - The current mean think time. + + - The seek distance used to determine if an incoming IO is better. + |