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Other kind of entity sharing storage), while reaching a total throughput notĬomparable to that reached by any other solution for controlling I/O. In addition, as for server-like workloads, BFQ enable, e.g., the desired fraction of the I/O bandwidth to be guaranteed to each client (or container, VM, or any Start at all (until the background workload is over). Other schedulers, applications may take ten times as long, or even not ForĮxample, regardless of the I/O workload in the background, with BFQĪpplications start as quickly as if the drive was idle. (such as audio/video players), results are simply incomparable. In terms of responsiveness and latency for time-sensitive applications If you think otherwise, weīecause of the above overhead, BFQ cannot process more than 400-500 Priority to other items in our TODO list. Since we do not consider this issue critical, we are giving more with only-write I/O on very fast SSDs: around 5-10%.It is not easy we will need time to fill this Is mainly due to the fact that BFQ is not a minimal I/O scheduler. Third-party test the loss is around 10% in the worst case. With a workload meant to put BFQ in the mostĭifficult condition, we reached a loss of 18%, but in any other with random sync I/O: around 2-3 % on average SSDs, up to 10-15% on.On SSDs, there is a loss of throughput only In contrast, with HDDs, there is a gain around
With SDĬards, eMMC and HDDs (single and RAID), there is no regression in In terms of throughput, results can be summarized as follows. As for HDDs and SSDs, we have run tests with both We have been testing BFQ on SD Cards, eMMC, HDDs, SATA SSDs,Īnd NVMe SSDs. I'm one of the authors of BFQ, so I'm all but a disinterested party :)īut I'll report only numbers obtained with repeatable test. Some information that might be useful for your choice What does Fedora Workstation 29 use as the default I/O scheduler? If it depends on the exact type of block device, then what is the default I/O scheduler for each type of device? Fedora also includes userspace policies such as default udev rules. However Fedora includes specific kernel patches / configuration. Where ionice used to work, it will no longer have any effect. no udev rules), will be subject to a change in behaviour in 4.19. => Users with the Linux default kernel configuration, SATA devices, and no additional userspace policy (e.g. deadline style scheduling is simpler it does not support ionice at all. BFQ is even more complex it supports ionice but also has heuristics to classify and prioritize some I/O automatically. => The kernel's default I/O scheduler can vary, depending on the type of device: SCSI/SATA, MMC/eMMC, etc.ĬFQ attempts to support some level of "fairness" and I/O priorities ( ionice). This suggestion was not accepted for 4.19.įor the legacy SQ block layer, the default scheduler is CFQ, which is most similar to BFQ. If deadline isn't available OR we have multiple queues,Ī suggestion has been made to use BFQ as the default in place of mq-deadline. * For blk-mq devices, we default to using mq-deadline, if available, for single In the mainline 4.19 kernel, the default scheduler is set as follows:
These include none, mq-deadline, and bfq. In the new MQ system, block devices use a new set of I/O schedulers.
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All the old code will now be removed in version 4.21 5.0, the next kernel release after 4.20. This is a transitional step towards removing the old code. (Linux treats SATA devices as being SCSI, using a translation based on the SAT standard). By default, SCSI and SATA devices will use the new multi-queue block layer. that's what you get if you take the tree published by Linus, without applying any Fedora-specific patches. Starting in version 4.19, the mainline kernel has CONFIG_SCSI_MQ_DEFAULT as default y.
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But a 4.19 kernel is installed by the normal software updates).
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(Technically, the initial release used a 4.18 series kernel. If it depends on the exact type of block device, then what is the default I/O scheduler for each type of device? Background informationįedora 29 includes a Linux kernel from the 4.19 series.