Attached patch, against 2.4.19-pre8-ac4, creates a compile-time choice
for setting the maximum user and kernel (now separate) real-time
priority. The patch also does the work of making sure these values are
honored - i.e., cleaning up magic numbers - but most of that was done in
my original MAX_PRIO cleanup.
The maximum user-space exported RT priority is MAX_USER_RT_PRIO and is
set via CONFIG_MAX_USER_RT_PRIO. It defaults to 100 and has a maximum
of (arbitrarily) 1000. Anything outside these ranges will be silently
rounded accordingly. The default RT prios are 0..99 - thus this will
allow priorities to go to 0..999 if desired.
The maximum kernel RT priority is MAX_RT_PRIO and is set via
CONFIG_MAX_RT_PRIO. It is the absolute maximum priority and is not
exported to user-space. The configure setting is actually an offset
from MAX_USER_RT_PRIO and thus defaults to zero (i.e. they are the
same). The maximum allowed is 200. This would be useful for giving
kernel threads higher priorities than any existing user task. This
change is possible by the MAX_RT_PRIO cleanup Ingo and I did.
Setting these higher will not break anything but obviously applications
will need to explicit ask for the new priorities. Since the user is not
allowed to set them lower, there is no risk of breakage. Since
increasing the priority space increases the size of the priority bitmap,
there is an increase in scheduling overhead. I have not measured it but
I assume it is negligible. People who are interested in more real-time
priorities typically have lots of RT tasks, and thus the size of the
bitmask is less relevant since the first bit will always be set early.
Applying this patch and accepting the defaults results in the same
object code as previous. Those desiring higher values can make the
changes accordingly. Enjoy.
Robert Love
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