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

[Jussi Laako]

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Of course, without glibc/pthreads support you would only be able to set
> the nice level for the current thread since you don't have any way to
> map from "pthread_t *" to tid.  And you wouldn't be able to create new
> threads with a particular nice level already set.

This is the problem... It has to work this way, otherwise it's pretty
useless.

> But that argument
> holds true for a new sched policy as well, because glibc checks the
> policy internally and only knows about the normal three.

Don't tell that to my system, where also SCHED_IDLE, SCHED_BATCH (which
are btw not listed on POSIX either) ...and... SCHED_MM work. It goes
directly to kernel which does the checks and fails if it sees fit.

> This option extends the "nice" API rather than the static priority API,
> so all of the above would still have a static priority of 0 for SCHED_OTHER.

For extending "nice" API, I would first ask for extension in POSIX, and
once it's there I could think about implementation.

And still this doesn't solve the second level problem.


	- Jussi
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