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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:25:05 +0530
From: Block Device <blockdevice@gmail.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: Increase priority of a workqueue thread ?
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Con, Dick,

    Thanks a lot :) ... I'll try it out and see whether it works for me :)

Regards
BD.

On 10/20/05, Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:12, Block Device wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I am using a custom workqueue thread in my module. How do I increase
> > the priority of the workqueue threads ?
> > I've seen that each workqueue contains an array of per-cpu structures
> > which has a
> > task_struct of the thread on a particular cpu. Since these threads are
> > created from keventd
> > I think they'll have the same priority as keventd.  Also the per-cpu
> > structure is something which is private to the workqueue
> > implementation. Directly using it (from my driver) to increase the
> > priority of the workqueue doesnt seem correct to me. Is there any
> > interface or standard way of changing the priority of a workqueue.
>
> By strange coincidence I was working on a patch to do this. Here's what I have
> so far - I know the code is safe but I don't know if it does as advertised
> yet ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Con
>
>
>
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