From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 23:25:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B5B1065673 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh.carroll@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8499C8FC1C for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh.carroll@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 2so474905ywt.13 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:25:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=yjssLzE007Fr/C26tUg6IXjGyw4ehkFeF7PiSyfN5uE=; b=ff8tz9tbzOmhPBNXiwjf2fFsJOuCv1wR92G/b8iuvGHRndoL7hgpv3JynBWvwsttxoelscUmIJpl/4Z1nlooH1A7BNuTsRT+yzG+UNy1g4ta4c7Vmyg/J9fhsJPgW/FHp1ubzYpKuhy40bjYtYgaJl0nCMDyexlvXWsqNAmXS4M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=F4TMxdyUkSKWPnp1gzC0uXz4SGIivtdiKlb51BO19kdO87ePjZRewzVvXtG/+qVuv8IPzFPDF7yAupUyXYtXbQ9zedVPJuyn5e7h15vws0VTNeYdmwnIof51rPHYbArlntBD/2t1IZ/t5Tupl/nKIxgCPCa9k9OZ4OnI58kV6PA= Received: by 10.151.44.18 with SMTP id w18mr4367608ybj.184.1208559584624; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.135.6 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8cb6106e0804181559q77c42696hf1a1ee3b7c520a00@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:59:44 +0200 From: "Josh Carroll" To: Brian In-Reply-To: <20080418143407.J43748@numail.brianwhalen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080418143407.J43748@numail.brianwhalen.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ule scheduler X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: josh.carroll@gmail.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:25:11 -0000 On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Brian wrote: > I see this is the standard recommendation for those of us using SMP. I am > wondering how far away we are from that becoming standard, since on even > amd64, I see the older scheduler is still in place? I believe the current plan is to have ULE be the default scheduler in 7.1-RELEASE. I've been using it since 7.0-PRERELEASE and have had no problems with it, though it is slower than 4BSD for some very specific workloads (ffmpeg with multiple threads). Josh