Re: select takes too much time

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> So it seems that the only solution to return back right away after
>> timeout is to play around with the scheduler or put the process doing
>> select at the front of the queue so it get a chance to run first.
>> Is there any other better way to do it?
>>
> 	nice(-19);

	sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_FIFO,
		(struct sched_param){.sched_priority = 99});

That should probably beat anything, with the exception of IRQs.

Jan Engelhardt
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