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@@ -1317,10 +1317,12 @@ transfer to overlap with computations.
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@node Task scheduling policy
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@section Task scheduling policy
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-By default, StarPU uses a simple greedy scheduler. To improve performance,
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+By default, StarPU uses the @code{eager} simple greedy scheduler. This is
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+because it provides correct load balance even if the application codelets do not
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+have performance models. If your application codelets have performance models,
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you should change the scheduler thanks to the @code{STARPU_SCHED} environment
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-variable. For instancel @code{export STARPU_SCHED=dmda} . Use @code{help}
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-to get the list of available schedulers.
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+variable. For instance @code{export STARPU_SCHED=dmda} . Use @code{help} to get
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+the list of available schedulers.
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Most schedulers are based on an estimation of codelet duration on each kind
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of processing unit. For this to be possible, the application programmer needs
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