Re: Changing Kernel thread priorities

[Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>]

On 06/06/2011 07:58 AM, Monica Puig-Pey wrote:
> El 06/06/11 13:54, Rolando Martins escribió:
>> Hi,
>> I use the following:
>>
>> PIDs=$(ps -eLo pid,cls,rtprio,pri,nice,cmd | grep -i "irq" | awk '{
>> print $1; }' | xargs echo)
>> for i in $PIDs
>> do
>> ret=$(chrt -f -p 99 $i)
>> done
>>
>> This will change the kernel thread associated with an irq handler to
>> RT FIFO prio 99.
>> Just change the script to your specific interrupt.
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>> Rolando
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Monica Puig-Pey<puigpeym@unican.es>
>> wrote:
>>> I am writing a driver which has one kernel thread associated with it.
>>> I want to change the priority of this thread, so that I can specify the
>>> order in which it is scheduled following an interrupt.
>>> I'm using:
>>>
>>> sched_setscheduler(struct task_struct *, int, struct sched_param *);
>>>
>>> but it doesn't work. I tried to change the priority from the
>>> init_module,
>>> and also from the Kernel Thread, but there is no way.
>>>
>>> Kernel version is 2.6.31-11-rt
>>>
>>> What do I call to change a kernel thread priority?
>>>
>>> Thanks you very much
>>>
>>> Mónica
>>>
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>
> I need to change the priority from inside the driver, when creating the
> kernel thread.
> Your script is useful but it is done in user context,
> Any other help please?

What I do is record the PID of the thread in the driver, then create an 
IOCTL for your driver that user land can call that either returns the 
PID so you can do it in user land, or cause the IOCTL code to do it in 
the driver.

The same can be done with the affinity of the IRQ if you record the IRQ 
number.

Mark