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NBD: make nbd default to deadline I/O scheduler 

NBD doesn't work well with CFQ (or AS) schedulers, so let's default to
something else.

The two problems I have experienced with nbd and cfq are:

1) nbd hangs with cfq on RHEL 5 (2.6.18) -- this may well have been
   fixed

   There's a similar debian bug that has been filed as well:

   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447638

   There have been posts to nbd-general mailing list about problems with
   cfq and nbd also.

2) nbd performs about 10% better (the last time I tested) with deadline
   vs.  cfq (the overhead of cfq doesn't provide much advantage to nbd [not
   being a real disk], and you end up going through the I/O scheduler on
   the nbd server anyway, so it makes sense that deadline is better with
   nbd)

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Clements 2008-02-23 15:23:50 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2f56debd77
commit 48f15b93b2
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@ -655,6 +655,7 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
for (i = 0; i < nbds_max; i++) {
struct gendisk *disk = alloc_disk(1);
elevator_t *old_e;
if (!disk)
goto out;
nbd_dev[i].disk = disk;
@ -668,6 +669,11 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void)
put_disk(disk);
goto out;
}
old_e = disk->queue->elevator;
if (elevator_init(disk->queue, "deadline") == 0 ||
elevator_init(disk->queue, "noop") == 0) {
elevator_exit(old_e);
}
}
if (register_blkdev(NBD_MAJOR, "nbd")) {