Re: How do I raise a thread to realtime priority?

Robin Holt
2004-02-12T22:17:52Z

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:08:20PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:53:57PM -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> > In the 2.4 kernel headers, unistd.h had a _syscall3 that I could
> > use to make an extern of the sys_sched_setscheduler raise a tasks
> > priority to realtime. With 2.6, the _syscall3 has been replaced
> > with static inlines. This all seems well.
> >
> > Since sys_sched_setscheduler is not in the unistd.h, should I add
> > it to unistd.h? Is there a prefered method for exporting/inlining
> > syscall entry points?
>
> libc "exports syscall entry points" -- call sched_setscheduler().
> That works on 2.4 and 2.6.

Maybe I wasn't clear. This is a kernel thread that is trying to
raise priority.