Thread Scheduling

• Contention Scope

  • Bound Threads: System Scheduling Scope (default in HP-UX)
  • Unbound Threads: Process Scheduling Scope
  • Set at thread creation via attribute passed to pthread_create()

• Scheduling Policies and Priorities

  • Realtime: SCHED_FIFO, SCHED_RR (priority = 0 to 31)
  • Timeshare: SCHED_OTHER, SCHED_TIMESHARE, SCHED_HPUX
    • (priority = -256 to -129, default = -192)

• Set thread attributes at thread creation or dynamically.

  • Creation: (only set functions shown)
  • int pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(*attr, int policy);
  • int pthread_attr_setschedparam(*attr, struct sched_param *sp);
  • sp->priority is the relevant field
  • Dynamic:
  • int pthread_setschedparam(pthread_t tid, int policy, struct sched_param *param);

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