[PATCH] arm64: defconfig: enable IOSCHED_DEADLINE

John Garry john.garry at huawei.com
Tue Jan 30 05:22:57 PST 2018


For certain workloads the deadline IO scheduler offers
particular advantages over other schedulers and has shown
to perform better, so enable it.

The default IO scheduler is unaffected by this change, and
currently is CFQ.

Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry at huawei.com>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
index 634b373..40c72e6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ CONFIG_PROFILING=y
 CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
-# CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE is not set
 CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_ALPINE=y
 CONFIG_ARCH_BCM2835=y
-- 
1.9.1




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