Add rudimentary man pages for kernel options sched_4bsd and sched_ule,

which document some of the sysctls available for configuring 4bsd, some
of the bullet features of ule, and that ule is considered experimental
still.

MFC after:	3 days

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+.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Robert N. M. Watson
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd April 7, 2005
+.Os
+.Dt SCHED_4BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm sched_4bsd
+.Nd 4.4BSD Scheduler
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd "options SCHED_4BSD"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+is the default 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 kern.sched.name
+This read-only sysctl reports the name of the active scheduler.
+.It kern.sched.quantum
+This read-write sysctl reports or sets the length of the quantum (in
+micro-seconds) granted to a thread.
+.It 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 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-symetric
+processor configurations, such as hyper-threading.