On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote: > Jason Carson wrote: > > I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which > > says... > > > > AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems > > and IDE disks > > > > ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so > > which scheduler is better for a server. Should I stay with anticipatory > > because I am using an IDE disk or switch to something else because my > > system is a server? > > That article is before the work began on the CFS/CFQ scheduler. There > has been a lot of improvements made to the CFQ scheduler in the past year. > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/8059
CFS and CFQ have NOTHING IN COMMON. CFS is a TASK scheduler. CFQ is a BLOCK IO scheduler. Two completly different fields. Please stop confusing this stuff, ok? deadline/cfq/as is block IO stuff cfs is about 'what app runs next' stuff. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
