Re: Current ULE state and plans (was Re: HMP scheduling on FreeBSD)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:28:04 UTC
On 1/19/26 09:17, Olivier Certner wrote: > Hi, > > This is a mail intended to spread the news. I must also admit to getting a bit tired to see the same misconceptions and falsities on ULE, and even on schedulers in general, repeated over long periods of time by several people. > [...] > One of my personal goals is to deprecate 4BSD in 16 if possible, as it is more and more irrelevant on modern machines and seems too lightly tested. > [...] Thanks for this explanation and progress report. Rather than deprecating 4BSD, has anyone thought about making it a load time tunable, perhaps even a loadable kernel module? Or, in the world of packages for base, having the scheduler be its own package? Especially if someone wants to write yet another scheduler? -- George