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authorFilipe <filipe@icewall.org>2006-12-06 23:36:04 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 11:39:32 -0500
commit49033c81845f1bd2a69e53485f20d55a0e7bace5 (patch)
treef95ea898b35b051dc8a23bf7df69b42397cc8406 /Documentation
parent593be07ae8f6f4a1b1b98813fabb155328f8bc0c (diff)
[PATCH] io/storage: Documentation update to as-iosched.txt
Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another document about selecting IO Schedulers. Signed-off-by: Filipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ very similar behavior to the deadline IO scheduler.
24Selecting IO schedulers 24Selecting IO schedulers
25----------------------- 25-----------------------
26To choose IO schedulers at boot time, use the argument 'elevator=deadline'. 26To choose IO schedulers at boot time, use the argument 'elevator=deadline'.
27'noop' and 'as' (the default) are also available. IO schedulers are assigned 27'noop', 'as' and 'cfq' (the default) are also available. IO schedulers are
28globally at boot time only presently. 28assigned globally at boot time only presently. It's also possible to change
29the IO scheduler for a determined device on the fly, as described in
30Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt.
29 31
30 32
31Anticipatory IO scheduler Policies 33Anticipatory IO scheduler Policies