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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-16 21:21:41 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-16 21:21:41 +0200 |
commit | c309b6f24222246c18a8b65d3950e6e755440865 (patch) | |
tree | 11893170f5c246bb0dee8066e85878af04162ab0 /Documentation/block/switching-sched.rst | |
parent | Merge tag 'xtensa-20190715' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa (diff) | |
parent | docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
conflicts with other trees"
* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
docs: block: fix pdf output
docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
docs: don't use nested tables
docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
docs: locking: add it to the main index
docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.rst b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..42042417380e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.rst @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +=================== +Switching Scheduler +=================== + +To choose IO schedulers at boot time, use the argument 'elevator=deadline'. +'noop' and 'cfq' (the default) are also available. IO schedulers are assigned +globally at boot time only presently. + +Each io queue has a set of io scheduler tunables associated with it. These +tunables control how the io scheduler works. You can find these entries +in:: + + /sys/block/<device>/queue/iosched + +assuming that you have sysfs mounted on /sys. If you don't have sysfs mounted, +you can do so by typing:: + + # mount none /sys -t sysfs + +It is possible to change the IO scheduler for a given block device on +the fly to select one of mq-deadline, none, bfq, or kyber schedulers - +which can improve that device's throughput. + +To set a specific scheduler, simply do this:: + + echo SCHEDNAME > /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler + +where SCHEDNAME is the name of a defined IO scheduler, and DEV is the +device name (hda, hdb, sga, or whatever you happen to have). + +The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing +a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names +will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets:: + + # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler + [mq-deadline] kyber bfq none + # echo none >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler + # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler + [none] mq-deadline kyber bfq |