Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: set the default scheduler to none

[Li Feng]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 5:05 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 05:01:40PM +0800, Li Feng wrote:
> > Hi MST and paolo,
> >
> > mq-deadline is good for slow media, and none is good for high-speed media.
> > It depends on how the community views this issue. When virtio-blk adopts
> > multi-queue,it automatically changes from deadline to none, which is not
> > uniform here.
>
> It's not virtio-blk changing though, it's linux doing that, right?
> Is virtio-blk special somehow?
>
Yes, it’s the common code path.

Each block driver has a chance to set the default none scheduler, like loop,
it has set the none as the default scheduler.

https://lkml.kernel.org/stable/20230809103647.895397540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

> > I don't have ideas right now to answer Christoph/Paolo's question.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Li
>
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> MST
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