Hi, I’m a developer of the BFQ I/O scheduler [1, 2], and this topic is about the techniques used to guarantee I/O bandwidth to clients, containers, virtual machines and any other type of entities accessing shared storage. I’ve been suggested to create this topic by a Google storage manager, wh…

Thank you for reading my post! I guess you can now find bfq in every distribution. A different story is whether the distribution is configured to use it as the default I/O scheduler fr every device. More and more distributions are being configured this way. SUSE and Fedora are two examples of top d…

Thank you! And thanks a lot for the examples :slight_smile: Yes, please share in the future too! :slight_smile:

Hi Paolo, thanks for the post, very interesting.

a solution to the severe throughput loss caused by I/O-bandwidth management

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rata March 7, 2019, 2:33am 2

Very interesting, thanks a lot for sharing!

Just curious, do you know which managed service or distribution is using bfq?

Some flatcar Linux I have is using CFQ, probably container Linux does the same. Don’t have others handy

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