Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

From: Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg_at_gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:32:57 UTC
> 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

I'll third it, I almost always switch to running the "old" BSD scheduler.

> > Regards, STefan

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org