X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fblock%2Fswitching-sched.txt;h=634c952e19648b6e5474ff938208852a89a254cb;hb=2cdc7241a290bb2b9ef4c2e2969a4a3ed92abb63;hp=5fa130a675312fe9c59a2f0135411ca2bab785d5;hpb=f0cd91a68acdc9b49d7f6738b514a426da627649;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt index 5fa130a6753..634c952e196 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +To choose IO schedulers at boot time, use the argument 'elevator=deadline'. +'noop', 'as' 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//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 + As of the Linux 2.6.10 kernel, it is now possible to change the IO scheduler for a given block device on the fly (thus making it possible, for instance, to set the CFQ scheduler for the system default, but @@ -20,3 +35,9 @@ noop anticipatory deadline [cfq] # echo anticipatory > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler # cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq + +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//queue/iosched