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diff --git a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt b/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3b2612e342f..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -To choose IO schedulers at boot time, use the argument 'elevator=deadline'. -'noop' 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/<device>/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 -set a specific device to use the deadline or noop schedulers - which -can improve that device's throughput). - -To set a specific scheduler, simply do this: - -echo SCHEDNAME > /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler - -where SCHEDNAME is the name of a defined IO scheduler, and DEV is the -device name (hda, hdb, sga, or whatever you happen to have). - -The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing -a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names -will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets: - -# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -noop deadline [cfq] -# echo deadline > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -# cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler -noop [deadline] cfq |