Thread: BFS for the power kernel
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coreyoconnor is offline coreyoconnor
2010-07-28 , 18:36
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#24
Originally Posted by DrWilken View Post
EDIT - NEVERMIND! BFS isn't an I/O scheduler (guess I forgot that somewhere along the road)... I still wonder why CFQ is used instead of noop...
hehe. No worries!
What advantage is there to using noop?

The popular Android device kernel from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com uses the BFQ IO scheduler: http://lwn.net/Articles/275978/ I was considering incorporating this patch. Cause, hey, the Android kids presumably liked it for a reason.