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25579895dfSAlexander Motin.Dd August 10, 2012
269b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Dt SCHED_ULE 4
27aa12cea2SUlrich Spörlein.Os
289b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Sh NAME
299b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Nm sched_ule
30ae91966bSRuslan Ermilov.Nd ULE scheduler
319b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Sh SYNOPSIS
329b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Cd "options SCHED_ULE"
339b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Sh DESCRIPTION
34a4be0b3cSRuslan ErmilovThe
359b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Nm
36a4be0b3cSRuslan Ermilovscheduler
375ac818f6SRuslan Ermilovprovides a number of advanced scheduler
389b99e9b9SRobert Watsonfeatures not present in
399b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
405ac818f6SRuslan Ermilovthe traditional system scheduler.
419b99e9b9SRobert WatsonThese features address SMP and interactivity and include:
429b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Pp
439b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
449b99e9b9SRobert Watson.It
459b99e9b9SRobert WatsonThread CPU affinity.
469b99e9b9SRobert Watson.It
479b99e9b9SRobert WatsonCPU topology awareness, including for hyper-threading.
489b99e9b9SRobert Watson.It
499b99e9b9SRobert WatsonPer-CPU run queues.
509b99e9b9SRobert Watson.It
519b99e9b9SRobert WatsonInteractivity heuristics that detect interactive applications and schedules
529b99e9b9SRobert Watsonthem preferentially under high load.
539b99e9b9SRobert Watson.El
549b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Pp
559b99e9b9SRobert WatsonThe following sysctls are relevant to the operation of
569b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Nm :
579b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Bl -tag -width indent
58a4be0b3cSRuslan Ermilov.It Va kern.sched.name
599b99e9b9SRobert WatsonThis read-only sysctl reports the name of the active scheduler.
60579895dfSAlexander Motin.It Va kern.sched.quantum
61579895dfSAlexander MotinThis read-write sysctl reports or sets the length of the quantum (in
62579895dfSAlexander Motinmicro-seconds) granted to a thread.
639b99e9b9SRobert Watson.El
649b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Sh SEE ALSO
659b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
669b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Xr sysctl 8
679b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Sh HISTORY
689b99e9b9SRobert WatsonThe
699b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Nm
709b99e9b9SRobert Watsonscheduler first appeared in
719b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Fx 5.1 .
729b99e9b9SRobert Watson.Sh AUTHORS
73*6c899950SBaptiste Daroussin.An Jeff Roberson Aq Mt jeff@FreeBSD.org
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