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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-03-25 03:53:42 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-03-25 03:53:42 -0300 |
| commit | 03dd4cb26d967f9588437b0fc9cc0e8353322bb7 (patch) | |
| tree | fa581f6dc1c0596391690d1f67eceef3af8246dc /Documentation/block | |
| parent | d4e493caf788ef44982e131ff9c786546904d934 (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.5-gnu
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt index f3bc72945..1e4f835a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt @@ -81,14 +81,13 @@ on higher end storage. Default value for this parameter is 8ms. -latency -------- -This parameter is used to enable/disable the latency mode of the CFQ -scheduler. If latency mode (called low_latency) is enabled, CFQ tries -to recompute the slice time for each process based on the target_latency set -for the system. This favors fairness over throughput. Disabling low -latency (setting it to 0) ignores target latency, allowing each process in the -system to get a full time slice. +low_latency +----------- +This parameter is used to enable/disable the low latency mode of the CFQ +scheduler. If enabled, CFQ tries to recompute the slice time for each process +based on the target_latency set for the system. This favors fairness over +throughput. Disabling low latency (setting it to 0) ignores target latency, +allowing each process in the system to get a full time slice. By default low latency mode is enabled. |