Re: [PATCH] block: Default to build the BFQ I/O scheduler

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Jan 27 2023 - 10:48:49 EST


On 1/27/23 8:43 AM, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> Today BFQ is widely used and it's also the default choice for some of the
> single-queue-based storage devices. Therefore, let's make it more
> convenient to build it as default, along with the other I/O schedulers.
>
> Let's also build the cgroup support for BFQ as default, as it's likely that
> it's wanted too, assuming CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP is also set, of course.

This won't make much of a difference, when the symbols are already in
the .config. So let's please not. It may be a 'y' for you by default,
but for lots of others it is not. Don't impose it on folks.

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Jens Axboe