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Date:      Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:20:45 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default
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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..


Adrian



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