From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755119AbXK0HEo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:04:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751317AbXK0HEh (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:04:37 -0500 Received: from mx12.go2.pl ([193.17.41.142]:54733 "EHLO poczta.o2.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751066AbXK0HEh (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:04:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:09:12 +0100 From: Jarek Poplawski To: Jens Axboe Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular Message-ID: <20071127070912.GB1735@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071125172237.GC6658@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 25-11-2007 18:22, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: ... >> Is there any technical reason why we need 4 different schedulers at all? > > Until we have the perfect scheduler :-) IMHO this is not enough yet. There is something called "the right of choice", and, it seems, things are usually far from perfect where this right is not respected. Regards, Jarek P.