Since they switched to the Completely Fair Scheduler [wikipedia.org] to improve performance then it means one or two things. Either they have failed, as it seems to run slower than earlier Linux versions in the BSD test, or the tests that BSD chose are "untypical", maybe selected to show a particular advantage to BSD. I don't have the expertise to tell which, but I would be happier seeing some benchmarks from an independent source rather than BSD.
For one, CFQ is not supposed to be an optimized I/O scheduler for database loads. That's where the Deadline scheduler comes in. You wouldn't want a "Fair" scheduler on your database server, as you would end up putting the database in I/O wait to handle lower priority processes.
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