CFQ to become the default I/O scheduler in 2.6.18

linportal writes “CFQ (Complete Fair Queuing) I/O scheduler will become the default one in the upcoming 2.6.18 kernel, replacing the current anticipatory I/O scheduler. This has been planned ever since 2004. and we’ll soon see how it works in practice. One of the nice new features that CFQ brings is setting I/O priority per process.”