[PATCH] ARM: defconfig: Add IOSCHED_BFQ to the default configs

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Feb 2 06:07:59 PST 2023


On Thu, Feb 2, 2023, at 14:59, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 2:32 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 at 14:11, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > ARM systems are often memory constrained and more often than not
>> > use slow single-channel storage such as flash memory or MMC/SD-cards.
>> > For any interactive systems (such as mobile phones, tablets,
>> > chromebooks...) the BFQ I/O scheduler will be desireable.
>> >
>> > Make sure the BFQ I/O scheduler is available on these systems.
>> >
>> > Loongarch, MIPS, m68k, UM and S390 has also enabled BFQ in their
>> > defconfigs, cf commit b495dfed706c4c5873c0dab8930ad6eb1d276a6c
>> > "um: Cleanup CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ" where the motivation is that
>> > it replaces the former CFQ scheduler.
>> >
>> > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>
>> > Cc: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente at linaro.org>
>> > Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>>
>> Seems reasonable to me! Feel free to add:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

>> I assume you are planning to send a patch for the arm64 defconfig too?
>> At least to me, that seems like a reasonable thing to do as well.
>
> Yup provided we have consesus to turn it on for Arm32 I will follow
> up with a patch to Arm64.

Feel free to send both to soc at kernel.org directly, if there are no
objections.

     Arnd



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