>It sounds like SCHED_RR is a bit more polite. I wouldn't want a monster >synthesis thread to hog the CPU and lock out everything else. I guess with >Round Robin that equal priority threads at least get a chance to run. I want >equal priority threads to timeslice with my task.
you understand that its "equal priority *and* SCHED_RR class", right? normal SCHED_OTHER threads won't get run as long as there are any runnable SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO threads ... --p
