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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:57:47
Message-Id: 200712132349.17548.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers by Joshua Doll
1 On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Joshua Doll wrote:
2 > Jason Carson wrote:
3 > > I was reading this article (http://lwn.net/Articles/114770/) which
4 > > says...
5 > >
6 > > AS (Anticipatory Scheduler) still seems to be better for desktop systems
7 > > and IDE disks
8 > >
9 > > ... I have a server, not a desktop system but am using an IDE disk so
10 > > which scheduler is better for a server. Should I stay with anticipatory
11 > > because I am using an IDE disk or switch to something else because my
12 > > system is a server?
13 >
14 > That article is before the work began on the CFS/CFQ scheduler. There
15 > has been a lot of improvements made to the CFQ scheduler in the past year.
16 >
17 > http://kerneltrap.org/node/8059
18
19 CFS and CFQ have NOTHING IN COMMON.
20
21 CFS is a TASK scheduler.
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23 CFQ is a BLOCK IO scheduler.
24
25 Two completly different fields.
26
27 Please stop confusing this stuff, ok?
28
29 deadline/cfq/as is block IO stuff
30
31 cfs is about 'what app runs next' stuff.
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