You can enhance your kernel by adding new I/O schedulers if needed. Globally, governors and schedulers are the same; they both provide a way how the system should work. However, for the schedulers it is all about the input/output datastream except for the CPU settings. I/O schedulers decide how an upcoming I/O activity will be scheduled. The standard schedulers such as noop or cfq are performing very reasonably.
I/O schedulers can be found in kernel_source/block.
config IOSCHED_SIO
tristate "Simple I/O scheduler"
default y
---help---
The Simple I/O scheduler is an extremely simple scheduler,
based on noop and deadline, that relies on deadlines to
ensure fairness. The algorithm does not do any sorting but
basic merging, trying to keep a minimum overhead. It is aimed
mainly for aleatory access devices (eg: flash devices).
default "sio" if DEFAULT_SIO
Save the file.
obj-$(CONFIG_IOSCHED_SIO) += sio-iosched.o
Save the file and you are done! The I/O schedulers should now pop up at the menu config.
Similar commit on GitHub: added Simple I/O scheduler.