BFQ I/O Scheduler Patches Revised, Aiming To Be Extra Scheduler In The Kernel Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 27 October 2016 at 01:12 PM EDT. 13 Comments BFQ developers had hoped to replace CFQ in the mainline Linux kernel with Budget Fair Queueing for a variety of reasons but it hadn't ended up making it mainline. Now the developers are hoping to introduce BFQ back to mainline as