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From: Jussi Laako <jussi@sonarnerd.net>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	d.faggioli@sssup.it
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class, take 2
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:34:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A09A525.4080107@sonarnerd.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A099670.5060902@nortel.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-29 18:40 [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class Jussi Laako
2008-12-30  7:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-30  8:39   ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-12  9:55     ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-12 10:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-13  9:44       ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-17 12:49         ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-01-25 23:09           ` Jussi Laako
2009-01-26  7:25             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-11  8:22               ` [RFC][PATCH] Multimedia scheduling class, take 2 Jussi Laako
2009-05-12  5:38                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-12  5:57                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12  9:53                   ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 15:32                     ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-12 16:34                       ` Jussi Laako [this message]
2009-05-12 16:45                         ` Raistlin
2009-05-12 17:38                           ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 17:55                           ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 17:00                         ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-12 17:53                           ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 23:04                             ` Chris Friesen
2009-05-13  6:36                               ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 10:07                   ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12 11:19                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 12:12                       ` Jussi Laako
2009-05-12  9:40                 ` Henrik Austad

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