Could you detail your use case. What you are trying to achieve ? On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Rahul Kumar <mailforgroup@xxxxxxxxx> 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 quantum, > nice, etc??). > > Also, Is there any real time scheduler, which is efficient than > existing Linux Scheduler?. > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:08 PM, shailesh jain > <coolworldofshail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 real-time >> mechanisms. The process to run is chosen from the static priority 0 >> list based on a dynamic priority that is determined only inside this >> list. The dynamic priority is based on the nice level (set by the nice >> or setpriority system call) and increased for each time quantum the >> process is ready to run, but denied to run by the scheduler. This >> ensures fair progress among all SCHED_OTHER processes. >> >> >> Source: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl2_sched_setscheduler.htm >> >> >> >> Shailesh Jain >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Rahul Kumar <mailforgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 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 unsubscribe from this list: send an email with >>> "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ >>> >>> >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
