:2.6.33 is Out! Say Good Bye to the Anticipatory Scheduler
2.6.33 is Out! Say Good Bye to the Anticipatory Scheduler Mar 9, 2010, 21 :06 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6436 reads) (Other stories by Jeffrey B. Layton)
"As mentioned in a previous article a great place to start learning about new features of the latest kernels is Kernel Newbie site. Kernel newbies has a nice review of the latest kernel, 2.6.33. There are a few things around storage that I want to point out.
"The biggest thing is that the anticipatory IO scheduler. In a article I did a quick glance at the IO schedulers in the kernel. One of them is called the Anticipartory Scheduler that anticipates subsequent block requests and caches them for use."
