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27.Dd April 7, 2005
27.Dd June 5, 2007
28.Os
29.Dt SCHED_4BSD 4
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm sched_4bsd
32.Nd "4.4BSD scheduler"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "options SCHED_4BSD"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION

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55.It Va kern.sched.preemption
56This read-only sysctl reports whether or not the kernel is configured to
57support preemption, which reduces the latency to run lower priority threads
58on wakeup.
59.El
60.Pp
61Some sysctls will be available only on systems supporting SMP.
62.Sh SEE ALSO
28.Os
29.Dt SCHED_4BSD 4
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm sched_4bsd
32.Nd "4.4BSD scheduler"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "options SCHED_4BSD"
35.Sh DESCRIPTION

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55.It Va kern.sched.preemption
56This read-only sysctl reports whether or not the kernel is configured to
57support preemption, which reduces the latency to run lower priority threads
58on wakeup.
59.El
60.Pp
61Some sysctls will be available only on systems supporting SMP.
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr sched_core 4 ,
64.Xr sched_ule 4 ,
65.Xr sysctl 8
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69scheduler has been present, in various forms, since the inception of
70.Bx .
71.Sh BUGS
72While a highly robust and time-tested scheduler,
73.Nm
74lacks specific knowledge of how to schedule advantageously in non-symmetric
75processor configurations, such as hyper-threading.
63.Xr sched_ule 4 ,
64.Xr sysctl 8
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Nm
68scheduler has been present, in various forms, since the inception of
69.Bx .
70.Sh BUGS
71While a highly robust and time-tested scheduler,
72.Nm
73lacks specific knowledge of how to schedule advantageously in non-symmetric
74processor configurations, such as hyper-threading.