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+.\" $FreeBSD$
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+.Dd August 10, 2012
+.Dt SCHED_ULE 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm sched_ule
+.Nd ULE scheduler
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd "options SCHED_ULE"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+scheduler
+provides a number of advanced scheduler
+features not present in
+.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
+the traditional system scheduler.
+These features address SMP and interactivity and include:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
+.It
+Thread CPU affinity.
+.It
+CPU topology awareness, including for hyper-threading.
+.It
+Per-CPU run queues.
+.It
+Interactivity heuristics that detect interactive applications and schedules
+them preferentially under high load.
+.El
+.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.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
+.Xr sysctl 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+scheduler first appeared in
+.Fx 5.1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Jeff Roberson
+.Aq jeff@FreeBSD.org