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