Re: 2.6.X, NPTL, SCHED_FIFO and JACK

Paul Davis
2004-06-30T16:32:07Z

>One thing to note is that NPTL defaults to PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED
>while LinuxThreads defaults to PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED.
>So, if you care about what scheduling created threads will have
>and want it to work with both NPTL and LinuxThreads, you want
>pthread_attr_setinheritsched (&attr, PTHREAD_*_SCHED);
>explicitely.

But since we always set the scheduling class explicitly, should the
inherited scheduler class make any difference?

--p