Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:55:42 -0500 From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas Message-ID: <8a3b989f-cdeb-7371-6d75-caf14a1b6050@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <a81e3e4a-776b-0c58-3793-acabbb4fb148@freebsd.org> References: <861r36xzpe.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> <a81e3e4a-776b-0c58-3793-acabbb4fb148@freebsd.org>
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On 11/30/21 06:53, Stefan Esser wrote: > Am 23.11.21 um 23:41 schrieb Joseph Mingrone: >> Hello FreeBSD community, >> >> The Foundation is seeking suggestions for new projects to support. What >> gaps in the Project are not being addressed by the broader community? > > The "new" ULE scheduler has a number of well-known issues, which leads > to the "old" BSD scheduler giving better performance on many systems > and loads, but is based on concepts that made sense in pre-SMP times. > > [... a collection of highly salient points about both schedulers ...] I'll second the recommendation to take a hard look at FreeBSD scheduling and to consider a brand new one. At the same time, it would be most helpful if the choice of scheduler were a boot-time tunable. -- George > Regards, STefan >
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