Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class, take 2

[Jussi Laako]

Chris Friesen wrote:
> If all you're trying to do is allow different threads to run at
> different nice levels, what about extending sys_setpriority() to take a
> "which" of PRIO_THREAD?  We'd probably have to call the syscall directly
> until/unless libc picks up the new option.

How would this be mapped to a POSIX standard API? I would like to see
something which works straight out with
pthread_setschedprio()/pthread_getschedparam(). In order it to work
correctly it also needs sys_sched_get_priority_min and
sys_sched_get_priority_max.


	- Jussi
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