"The CFQ, or Complete Fair Queuing disk I/O scheduler was first released back in February of 2003, designed to maintain a minimal worst case latency on all IO reads and writes, ideal for multimedia desktop usage. The scheduler has been tested in numerous patchsets to date, including Andrew's -mm patchset, Con Kolivas's 2.6 -ck patchset, and Marc-Christian Petersen's WOLK patchset.
"Read on to see all the changes queued up for the 2.6.6 kernel..."