disk scheduler

[Alex Hornung]

FQ is a fair-queuing policy, primarily designed to balance the I/O
between different processes taking into account the average latency of
each request and the number of requests. It additionally avoids read
starvation by giving higher priority to reads whenever they are
available. It essentially should improve interactivity when I/O
intensive (write intensive in particular) processes are running, like
hammer rebalance, etc.

There are no known plans to add more scheduling policies, but I for
one would very much welcome it. Writing new policies for the 'dsched'
framework is really simple and, while fq does a reasonably good job,
there is room for a lot of improvement in the form of further
scheduling policies. I also added writing dsched policies as a gsoc
project, and I would very much welcome someone doing that as a
project.

Hope that helps,
Alex Hornung

On 6 March 2011 17:48, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> I found a bunch of articles on disk scheduling in Wikipedia and checked what's
> available in DF:
>
> # sysctl dsched.policies
> dsched.policies: noop fq
>
> What does "fq" do? Are there plans to add any more?
>
> Pierre
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