Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:06:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Xu <davidxu@viatech.com.cn> Subject: Re: libc_r silliness Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10307082043470.16930-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030708202828.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> On 09-Jul-2003 Daniel Eischen wrote:
^^ Is there a time lag somewhere :-)
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> Another possibility is to have
> >> each thread library provide their own sched_get_{min,max} and
> >> wrap the sched_{get,set}schedparam() syscalls to massage the
> >> thread priority values into their corresponding process priority
> >> values to simulate a single priority space for each policy.
> >
> > I like this better than the other option, but how do you
> > know that when the application calls sched_setschedparam()
> > with a priority of 10, that it really came from
> > sched_get_priority_min() + 10 (meaning -10) or whether it was
> > hardcoded to 10 and really wants 10.
>
> You aren't supposed to hard code 10, you're supposed to derive
> your value from the min() and max() functions as far as I can
> tell. :-P
Well, yup, that's what you're _suppose_ to do... I guess
we can do this. To summarize:
sched_get_schedparam(), sched_set_schedparam(),
sched_get_priority_min(), sched_get_priority_max()
will be provided by the thread libraries (unless
kernel and thread priorities match for all scheduling
protocols).
The library functions sched_get_schedparam(),
sched_get_priority_min(), and sched_get_priority_max()
will call the respective system calls and convert kernel
SCHED_OTHER priorities to thread SCHED_OTHER priorities
before returning.
The library function sched_set_schedparam() will
convert thread SCHED_OTHER priorities to kernel
SCHED_OTHER priorities before making the actual
system call.
If the thread priority ranges for SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR
do not match the kernel priority ranges, the thread libraries
will do similar conversions (they might just as well do
the conversions even if they are the same).
--
Dan Eischen
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