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  27. .Dd January 21, 2008
  28. .Dt SCHED_4BSD 4
  29. .Os
  30. .Sh NAME
  31. .Nm sched_4bsd
  32. .Nd "4.4BSD scheduler"
  33. .Sh SYNOPSIS
  34. .Cd "options SCHED_4BSD"
  35. .Sh DESCRIPTION
  36. The
  37. .Nm
  38. scheduler
  39. is the traditional system scheduler, providing both high throughput and solid
  40. interactive response in the presence of load.
  41. .Pp
  42. The following sysctls are relevant to the operation of
  43. .Nm :
  44. .Bl -tag -width indent
  45. .It Va kern.sched.name
  46. This read-only sysctl reports the name of the active scheduler.
  47. .It Va kern.sched.quantum
  48. This read-write sysctl reports or sets the length of the quantum (in
  49. micro-seconds) granted to a thread.
  50. .It Va kern.sched.ipiwakeup.enabled
  51. This read-write sysctl sets whether or not the scheduler will generate an
  52. inter-processor interrupt (IPI) to an idle CPU when a thread is woken up.
  53. Otherwise, idle CPUs will wait until the next clock tick before looking for
  54. new work.
  55. .It Va kern.sched.preemption
  56. This read-only sysctl reports whether or not the kernel is configured to
  57. support preemption, which reduces the latency to run lower priority threads
  58. on wakeup.
  59. .El
  60. .Pp
  61. Some sysctls will be available only on systems supporting SMP.
  62. .Sh SEE ALSO
  63. .Xr sched_ule 4 ,
  64. .Xr sysctl 8
  65. .Sh HISTORY
  66. The
  67. .Nm
  68. scheduler has been present, in various forms, since the inception of
  69. .Bx .
  70. .Sh BUGS
  71. While a highly robust and time-tested scheduler,
  72. .Nm
  73. lacks specific knowledge of how to schedule advantageously in non-symmetric
  74. processor configurations, such as hyper-threading.