New beta release is up: r21b2.
A few minor bugs have been fixed, but the new major change is the removal of BFQ in favor of Samsung's SSG I/O scheduler.
Qualcomm has been using BFQ I/O scheduler for a while now, but its code complexity is quite huge, reaching 10K lines of code.
This unfortunately, translates to more CPU overhead.
With r21b1, BFQ is removed in favor of Samsung's in-house I/O scheduler: SSG.
SSG is simple enough (only 1.1K lines of code) while still having some Android-specific optimizations such as background/foreground separation.
I/O scheduler is a very complicated topic and synthetic benchmarks will not be able to capture the practical effects of one, hence the beta release.
If you notice anything outside of ordinary (e.g., game stuttering, music dropping out, or major lags when updating apps from Google Play compared to r20), please report back.
If all turns out fine, we can expect some battery improvements.
r21b1 had the background profile set incorrectly. Please update.