2 SCHED_IDLE bugs in Cygwin 3.6
Mark Geisert
mark@maxrnd.com
Tue Dec 24 08:03:37 GMT 2024
On 12/19/2024 10:35 PM, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2024-12-19 14:08, René Berber via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 12/19/2024 2:01 PM, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On 12/19/2024 1:43 PM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> cygwin.git;a=commit;h=61c2f075cd55d4a52b4713383f75870c1e416923
>>>> added SCHED_IDLE support for Cygwin 3.6. It should work.
>> --------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> Cygwin should support it, but I wonder if chrt (in util-linux) has
>>> been updated in light of the change.
>> Version 3.6 is not a release, so unless you're using a snapshot...
>
> The maintainer can flip Cygwin to test 3.6... and use that to build a
> test release of util-linux with Cygwin >= 3.6 as a dependency and make
> that test release available.
I have now uploaded util-linux 2.40.2 as a test release. See the
announce@cygwin.com list for the announcement.
This release does not have a dependency Cygwin >= 3.6. /usr/bin/chrt
now understands the options for SCHED_IDLE and SCHED_BATCH policies, but
they are not effective unless you're running on 3.6 or greater.
..mark
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