9 Jan
2017
9 Jan
'17
11:20 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 07:25:47PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
jackd on FreeBSD calls pthread_setschedparam(thread,
SCHED_FIFO, &rtparam)
with rtparam.sched_priority = 10.
I am wondering where does 10 come from? The range for SCHED_FIFO is 0 .. 31,
On Linux, it's 1 .. 99.
as returned by sched_get_priority_min() and
sched_get_priority_max(). The
value 10 seems wrong, since the fastest priority is 0, the slowest is 31.
On Linux, higher is definitely better:
"Processes with numerically higher priority values are scheduled
before processes with numerically lower priority values."
In controlapi.c
sched_get_priority_min()/sched_get_priority_max() are called
for OpenBSD. For this purpose FreeBSD should be the same. So it should be
#ifndef __OpenBSD__ && defined(__FreeBSD__).
Please send a patch or ideally a pull request on github. It's easier to
discuss.
Another problem is that FreeBSD doesn't allow to
set thread priorities
for non-root users, but jackd is supposed to run by the regular user.
You can always run without realtime priorities (-r or --no-realtime).
I'm surprised FreeBSD doesn't use PAM to allow users to call SCHED_FIFO.
You're sure about this?
HTH
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