ULE on ARM

Olivier Houchard mlfbsd at ci0.org
Fri Mar 7 14:26:21 UTC 2014


Hi Ruslan,

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 06:14:06PM +0400, Ruslan Bukin wrote:
> I discovered just a couple of ARM kernel configs
> uses SCHED_ULE, but all other uses SCHED_4BSD
> 
> any disadvantages to use ULE scheduler on ARM?
> or it is just because of historical reasons?
> 
> I enabled ULE on Freescale Vybrid and running
> it for a long time just fine.
> 
> according to my subjective impressions ULE
> works better on ARM in sound applications
> 
> -Ruslan

I think that's this way mostly for historical reason, because I had issues
with ULE around 2004/2005 or so. Switching to ULE is probably fine by now, I
just remember there's a probably issue with ULE and SMP in swtch.S, I'll check
this.

Regards,

Olivier


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