Hi Gilles, here is a trivial test case on my desk that points to SCHED_RR issues of the POSIX skin: simple pthread_create with an attribute block that has SCHED_RR set, but neither SCHED_RR nor the priority reach the new thread.
The way the scheduling policy and parameters get to that user space thread leads via __real_pthread_setschedparam after __pse51_thread_create. This triggers do_setsched_event in shadow.c. But here we filter out all policies except for SCHED_FIFO. So neither the priority nor the required XNRRB flag make it to the target therefore. Even worse, we are running aperiodic timer mode, so this would not have worked anyway due to the scheduler limitations. Fortunately, it turned out that the customer is fine with SCHED_FIFO as well, but the broken priorities and/or lacking error codes on creation are annoying + the fact that it likely wouldn't work even with periodic timer mode. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 26 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
