SCHED_ULE should not be the default

[Andriy Gapon]

on 17/12/2011 23:20 Adrian Chadd said the following:
> Erm, just as a random question - since device drivers (and GEOM) run
> as separate threads, has anyone looked into what kind of effects the
> scheduler has on these?
> 
> I definitely have measurable throughput/responsiveness differences
> between ULE and 4BSD (and preempt/non-preempt on 4BSD) on my MIPS
> boards when they're bridging traffic. I wonder if there's something
> strange going on with the scheduling and preemption of driver netisrs,
> taskqueues, the fast interrupt handlers, etc.
> 
> This may -not- be a userland specific problem..

That's an interesting idea.  From the recent discussion about USB I can conclude
that USB threads run at higher priority than GEOM threads: PI_NET/PI_DISK vs
PRIBIO.  The former is from the ithread range, the latter is from the regular
kernel range.  Maybe it would make sense to give the GEOM threads a priority
from the ithread range too - given their role and importance.

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Andriy Gapon