Scheduler in Various Docs

Daniel Gerzo danger at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 20 12:47:50 PST 2008


Hello Stephen,

Sunday, January 20, 2008, 7:12:49 PM, you wrote:

> Jason C. Wells wrote:
>> The comments regarding SCHED_ULE and SCHED_4BSD are inconsistent with 
>> information found in the email archives.  LINT says ULE is experimental. 
>>     The handbook doesn't mention ULE at all. The archives say ULE is the 
>> new recommended scheduler.
>> 
>> If ULE is in fact the current recommendation, then a few docs need to be 
>> updated.

> To add to Jason's point - why does GENERIC still default to SCHED_4BSD?

Actually, 8.0-CURRENT has the SCHED_ULE scheduler set as default.

>   Are there plans to change this before 7.0 is truly released?

No, this will not be changed for 7.0, but it's planned for 7.1.

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 Daniel                            mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org



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