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SubjectRe: 2.5 'what to expect'
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:10:26PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> elvtune is mentioned here...
>
> DJ> - Several different IO elevators are available to match different types
> DJ> of workload. You can select which one to use with elvtune.
> but deprecated here:
>
> DJ> Deprecated.
> DJ> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> DJ> - usbdevfs will be going away in 2.7. The same filesystem can
> DJ> be mounted as 'usbfs' in recent 2.4 kernels, and in 2.5.52
> DJ> and above, which is what the filesystem will furthermore be
> DJ> known as.
> DJ> - elvtune is deprecated (as are the ioctl's it used).
> DJ> Instead, the io scheduler tunables are exported in sysfs (see below)
> DJ> in the /sys/block/<device>/iosched directory.
> DJ> Jens wrote a document explaining the tunables of the new scheduler at
> DJ> http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-44/att-deadline-iosched.txt

Something seems amiss. The deprecated elvtune interface is the old -r/-w/-b command line.
I was lead to believe a new elvtune appeared which supports an option
for changing the elevator under 2.5, however a quick google doesn't turn
up any such patched elvtune, so I'm somewhat puzzled.

> Maybe just suggest the sysfs interface at once and not mention elvtune?

Changing the elevator type per device via sysfs does seem to make sense,
however /sys/block/<devicename>/queue/iosched/ doesn't yield anything
that would suggest this is possible (yet). I think Jens has patches for this?

Right now, afaics, the only way to change elevator is on a global (all
device) basis, booting with elevator=deadline or the like, so it looks
like the quote from post-halloween-2.5.txt has jumped the gun a little
and is discussing an as-yet unmerged feature. Jens ?

Dave

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