Linux 4.12 I/O Scheduler Benchmarks: BFQ, Kyber, Etc

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 8 May 2017 at 09:04 AM EDT. Page 4 of 4. 27 Comments.

Next for reference are some tests using the system equipped with the RD400 NVMe SSD between none, mq-deadline, and BFQ.

With the speedy NVMe SSD, not using an I/O scheduler was the fastest for SQLite...

With these tests run on the NVMe SSD system, the default behavior of none was indeed the fastest at least for the workloads covered in this article.

Stay tuned for more Linux 4.12 benchmarks in the days and weeks ahead.

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