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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:08 AM stan stanl-fedorauser@vfemail.net wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:48:29 -0000 "Alan Jenkins" alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com wrote:
[3] BFQ: http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/description.php
[4] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/375600/how-to-enable-and-use-the-bf...
[5] "I'd prefer if the distros would lead the way on this, as theyare the ones that will most likely see the most bug reports" - Jens Axboe, https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg31062.html
I compiled a custom kernel from the fedora src.rpm for 4.19.8. I turned off all schedulers except NOOP and BFQ. But there was no way in the configuration process (make menuconfig) to set BFQ as default. I tried setting it in kernel-local, but the build process errored because it said NOOP is the default and that disagreed with my choice. I'm running the kernel and it is using noop. And there is no way to change it in the /sys hierarchy.
So, how do I get a fedora kernel to run BFQ?
Short version: Yep, so far in 4.20 there is neither a CONFIG_DEFAULT_BFQ or CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="bfq" near as I can tell. Maybe it's different for 4.21.
I used two boot params: scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1 elevator=bfq. I don't think that's a good way for a distribution to set the default though.
Icky version:
I set the following in /etc/default/grub and then ran grub2-mkconfig (not on Rawhide!) GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1 elevator=bfq zswap.enabled=1 zswap.max_pool_percent=25 zswap.compressor=lz4"
I also created /etc/dracut.conf.d/bfq.conf containing: add_drivers+=" bfq " yes, with spaces, and rebuilt the initramfs
But upon reboot, total implosion. Piles of USB errors and disconnects (the boot device is a Samsung FIT USB stick which fits flush in an Intel NUC). I didn't have time to troubleshoot what's causing this problem, other than to plug the USB stick into another computer to verify the stick is good and hasn't been corrupted. It's possibly related the mq-blk bug in 4.19.0 through 4.19.7 - so I've since upgraded to 4.19.8 which as those patches, but I haven't had a chance to retest.