Re: SCHED_OTHER

2010-07-14 Thread Rahul Kumar
Currently i'm using pthread library with call pthread_set_schedparam (..., SCHED_OTHER); I want to improve the performance of linux kernel by selecting other than existing scheduling algorithm SCHED_OTHER If its difficult to do any tunings to existing scheduling policy, i would like t

Re: SCHED_OTHER

2010-07-13 Thread shailesh jain
Could you detail your use case. What you are trying to achieve ? On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Rahul Kumar wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > I would like to tune the performance by selecting SCHED_OTHER policy. > I'm not finding what options can we set to do this. (time qua

Re: SCHED_OTHER

2010-07-09 Thread shailesh jain
Is there anything specific that you don't understand ? SCHED_OTHER: Default Linux time-sharing scheduling SCHED_OTHER can only be used at static priority 0. SCHED_OTHER is the standard Linux time-sharing scheduler that is intended for all processes that do not require special static priority

SCHED_OTHER

2010-07-09 Thread Rahul Kumar
Hi, I came across SCHED_OTHER to set the scheduling policy using pthread library routines. Which policy does it follow exactly?. I could understand SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR but i could not find much information on SCHED_OTHER. Can any one give me the pointers on where to look at?. -- To