5 Each io queue has a set of io scheduler tunables associated with it. These
6 tunables control how the io scheduler works. You can find these entries
9 /sys/block/<device>/queue/iosched
11 assuming that you have sysfs mounted on /sys. If you don't have sysfs mounted,
12 you can do so by typing::
14 # mount none /sys -t sysfs
16 It is possible to change the IO scheduler for a given block device on
17 the fly to select one of mq-deadline, none, bfq, or kyber schedulers -
18 which can improve that device's throughput.
20 To set a specific scheduler, simply do this::
22 echo SCHEDNAME > /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler
24 where SCHEDNAME is the name of a defined IO scheduler, and DEV is the
25 device name (hda, hdb, sga, or whatever you happen to have).
27 The list of defined schedulers can be found by simply doing
28 a "cat /sys/block/DEV/queue/scheduler" - the list of valid names
29 will be displayed, with the currently selected scheduler in brackets::
31 # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
32 [mq-deadline] kyber bfq none
33 # echo none >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
34 # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
35 [none] mq-deadline kyber bfq