Lowering priority was wrong. Some bugs:
1) You don't lower the priority by setting the scheduler policy to some
of the real-time ones (SCHED_RR or SCHER_FIFO). If you do so, you are
actually increasing the priority of the workers and your main thread
you be preempted and stalled until the workers complete their job.
Fortunately this will only happen if your programming is running as
root, as normal users (without CAP_SYS_NICE) are unable to set
priority to real-time values.
2) setpriority() and getpriority() are not part of pthread and you can't
use the id returned by pthread. Manpage explicitly says so on
pthread_self(3):
"The thread ID returned by pthread_self() is not the same thing as the
kernel thread ID returned by a call to gettid(2)."
Since glibc does not have a gettid, here we are using
syscall(SYS_gettid)
This patch was tested with the program below. Compile and run:
$ gcc p_hello2.c -o p_hello2 -lpthread
$ ./p_hello2 10
You'll see that the main thread remains with its priority and threads
created by the main thread change their own niceness.
#include <errno.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
/* Lower priority of current thread.
*
* It's used by worker threads so they use up "bg cpu" as it was really intended
* to work. If current thread is running with real-time priority, we decrease
* our priority by 5. This is done in a portable way. Otherwise we are
* running with SCHED_OTHER policy and there's no portable way to set the nice
* level on current thread. In Linux, it does work and it's the only one that is
* implemented.
*/
static void
_ecore_thread_pri_drop(void)
{
struct sched_param param;
int pol, prio, ret;
pid_t tid;
pthread_t pthread_id;
pthread_id = pthread_self();
ret = pthread_getschedparam(pthread_id, &pol, ¶m);
if (ret)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to query sched parameters\n");
return;
}
if (pol == SCHED_RR || pol == SCHED_FIFO)
{
prio = sched_get_priority_max(pol);
param.sched_priority += 5;
if (prio > 0 && param.sched_priority > prio)
param.sched_priority = prio;
pthread_setschedparam(pthread_id, pol, ¶m);
}
#ifdef __linux__
else
{
tid = syscall(SYS_gettid);
errno = 0;
prio = getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, tid);
if (errno == 0)
{
prio += 5;
if (prio > 19)
prio = 19;
setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, tid, prio);
}
}
#endif
}
/*
* p_hello.c -- a hello program (in pthread)
*/
#define MAX_THREAD 1000
typedef struct {
int id;
} parm;
void *hello(void *arg)
{
parm *p=(parm *)arg;
pid_t tid;
int prio;
tid = syscall(SYS_gettid);
printf("[%d] Hello from node %d\n", tid, p->id);
pthread_yield();
printf("[%d] tid=%lu\n", tid);
_ecore_thread_pri_drop();
prio = getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, tid);
printf("[%d] New nice value: %d\n", tid, prio);
return (NULL);
}
void main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
int n,i;
pthread_t *threads;
pthread_attr_t pthread_custom_attr;
parm *p;
pid_t tid;
int prio;
if (argc != 2)
{
printf ("Usage: %s n\n where n is no. of threads\n",argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
n=atoi(argv[1]);
if ((n < 1) || (n > MAX_THREAD)) {
printf ("The no of thread should between 1 and %d.\n",MAX_THREAD);
exit(1);
}
threads = (pthread_t *)malloc(n * sizeof(*threads));
pthread_attr_init(&pthread_custom_attr);
p = (parm *)malloc(n * sizeof(parm));
/* Start up thread */
tid = syscall(SYS_gettid);
for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
prio = getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, tid);
printf("[%d] root thread nice value: %d\n", tid, prio);
p[i].id=i;
pthread_create(&threads[i], &pthread_custom_attr, hello, (void *)(p+i));
}
/* Synchronize the completion of each thread. */
for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
pthread_join(threads[i],NULL);
}
free(p);
}
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