Scheduling parameters of a process and its main thread

From: Olivier Croquette
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 02:27:20 EST


Hi

When a process only has one thread, I would expect that sched_get* and pthread_getschedparam return equivalent priorities.

But in the example below, it's not the case.
What I do:
- print priorities
- give RT priority to the process
- print priorities
- give RT priority to the thread
- print priorities

1. Process 3938 : policy=0 prio=0
1. Thread 1075147872 : policy=0 prio=0

2. Process 3938 : policy=1 prio=20
2. Thread 1075147872 : policy=0 prio=0

3. Process 3938 : policy=1 prio=30
3. Thread 1075147872 : policy=1 prio=30

As you can see, at the step to, the process and the thread don't have the same parameters.
Is that normal?



#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <pthread.h>

/* gcc schedparam.c -o schedparam -Wall -pthread */

int print_process_sched(pid_t pid) {
struct sched_param param;
int prio;
int policy;

policy = sched_getscheduler(pid);

sched_getparam(pid,&param);
prio = param.sched_priority;

printf("Process %d : policy=%d prio=%d\n",(int)pid, policy,prio);

return 0;
}

int utilities_print_thread_sched(pthread_t id) {
struct sched_param param;
int policy;
int prio;
unsigned long int lid = id;

if ( pthread_getschedparam(id, &policy, &param) ) {
perror("pthread_getschedparam()"); return 1;
}

prio = param.sched_priority;

printf("Thread %ld : policy=%d prio=%d\n", (long)lid, policy,prio);

return 0;
}

int main(void ) {

struct sched_param p;

printf("1. "); print_process_sched(getpid());
printf("1. "); utilities_print_thread_sched(pthread_self());

p.sched_priority = 20;
if ( sched_setscheduler(getpid(),SCHED_FIFO,&p) ) {
perror("sched_setscheduler()");
return 1;
}

printf("2. "); print_process_sched(getpid());
printf("2. "); utilities_print_thread_sched(pthread_self());

p.sched_priority = 30;
if ( pthread_setschedparam(pthread_self(),SCHED_FIFO,&p) ) {
perror("sched_setscheduler()");
return 1;
}

printf("3. "); print_process_sched(getpid());
printf("3. "); utilities_print_thread_sched(pthread_self());

return 0;
}
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