Craig James <craig_ja...@emolecules.com> wrote: 
 
> After a reading various articles, I thought that "noop" was the
> right choice when you're using a battery-backed RAID controller. 
> The RAID controller is going to cache all data and reschedule the
> writes anyway, so the kernal schedule is irrelevant at best, and can
> slow things down.
 
Wouldn't that depend on the relative sizes of those caches?  In a
not-so-hypothetical example, we have machines with 120 GB OS cache,
and 256 MB BBU RAID controller cache.  We seem to benefit from
elevator=deadline at the OS level.
 
-Kevin

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