No deadline I/O scheduler for 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
 > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 13:48:53 -0500,
 >   Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
 > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:41:41PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
 > >  > When I booted up the 2.6.29-0.137.rc5.git4.fc11.x86_64 kernel today I got
 > >  > an error message about there not being a deadline scheduler. I didn't see
 > >  > a changelog entry that covered this. Is this a temporary change?
 > > 
 > > What's the exact message you're seeing ?
 > 
 > This is what is in /var/log/messages:
 > Feb 20 12:37:14 cerberus kernel: I/O scheduler deadline not found
 > 
 > I think only "I/O scheduler deadline not found" was displayed on the screen
 > during the boot process.

The module exists, but nothing loads it by default.

in rc.local or wherever you have it set up to use deadline, you also need
to modprobe deadline-iosched.

	Dave

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