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- .Dd January 21, 2008
- .Dt SCHED_4BSD 4
- .Os
- .Sh NAME
- .Nm sched_4bsd
- .Nd "4.4BSD scheduler"
- .Sh SYNOPSIS
- .Cd "options SCHED_4BSD"
- .Sh DESCRIPTION
- The
- .Nm
- scheduler
- is the traditional system scheduler, providing both high throughput and solid
- interactive response in the presence of load.
- .Pp
- The following sysctls are relevant to the operation of
- .Nm :
- .Bl -tag -width indent
- .It Va kern.sched.name
- This read-only sysctl reports the name of the active scheduler.
- .It Va kern.sched.quantum
- This read-write sysctl reports or sets the length of the quantum (in
- micro-seconds) granted to a thread.
- .It Va kern.sched.ipiwakeup.enabled
- This read-write sysctl sets whether or not the scheduler will generate an
- inter-processor interrupt (IPI) to an idle CPU when a thread is woken up.
- Otherwise, idle CPUs will wait until the next clock tick before looking for
- new work.
- .It Va kern.sched.preemption
- This read-only sysctl reports whether or not the kernel is configured to
- support preemption, which reduces the latency to run lower priority threads
- on wakeup.
- .El
- .Pp
- Some sysctls will be available only on systems supporting SMP.
- .Sh SEE ALSO
- .Xr sched_ule 4 ,
- .Xr sysctl 8
- .Sh HISTORY
- The
- .Nm
- scheduler has been present, in various forms, since the inception of
- .Bx .
- .Sh BUGS
- While a highly robust and time-tested scheduler,
- .Nm
- lacks specific knowledge of how to schedule advantageously in non-symmetric
- processor configurations, such as hyper-threading.