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unsuspecting users. - Add a comment in NOTES about experimental status of SCHED_ULE. - Make warning about experimental status in sched_ule(4) a bit stronger. Suggested and reviewed by: dougb Discussed on: developers MFC after: 3 days
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.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Robert N. M. Watson
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd April 7, 2005
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.Os
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.Dt SCHED_ULE 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm sched_ule
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.Nd ULE scheduler
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "options SCHED_ULE"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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scheduler
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is an experimental scheduler that provides a number of advanced scheduler
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features not present in
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.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
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the default system scheduler.
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These features address SMP and interactivity and include:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
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.It
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Thread CPU affinity.
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.It
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CPU topology awareness, including for hyper-threading.
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.It
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Per-CPU run queues.
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.It
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Interactivity heuristics that detect interactive applications and schedules
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them preferentially under high load.
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.El
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.Pp
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The following sysctls are relevant to the operation of
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.Nm :
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Va kern.sched.name
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This read-only sysctl reports the name of the active scheduler.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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scheduler
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is disabled by default as it is experimental.
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See the
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.Sx BUGS
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section for more information.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sched_4bsd 4 ,
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.Xr sched_core 4 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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scheduler first appeared in
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.Fx 5.1 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Jeff Roberson
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.Aq jeff@FreeBSD.org
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.Sh BUGS
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As an experimental scheduler,
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.Nm
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is not enabled by default due to a number of known issues, including weak
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performance with several known workloads, and reports of instability.
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Deployment of
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.Nm
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in production environments is not recommended at this time.
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