Re: Slow pthread_create() under high load

From: Kaz Kylheku (kaz@ashi.footprints.net)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 18:21:38 EST


On 26 Mar 2000, David Wragg wrote:

> Date: 26 Mar 2000 17:36:18 +0000
> From: David Wragg <dpw@doc.ic.ac.uk>
> To: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
> Cc: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Slow pthread_create() under high load
>
> Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net> writes:
> > Even if you make it a high priority thread, it does not start that
> > way; it becomes high priority after it executes the code which
> > performs the adjustment.
>
> This isn't necessarily so. sched_setscheduler() takes a pid parameter,
> so the parent thread and the child thread can both perform the
> adjustment, ensuring that on return from pthread_create() the new
> thread has the appropriate priority.

LinuxThreads doesn't do it this way, however. Perhaps it should!

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