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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:55:04 -0500
From: "Ram Gupta" <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: select takes too much time
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On 4/14/06, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> >> So it seems that the only solution to return back right away after
> >> timeout is to play around with the scheduler or put the process doing
> >> select at the front of the queue so it get a chance to run first.
> >> Is there any other better way to do it?
> >>
> >       nice(-19);
>
>         sched_setscheduler(0, SCHED_FIFO,
>                 (struct sched_param){.sched_priority = 99});
>
> That should probably beat anything, with the exception of IRQs.

Thanks a lot. I will give it a try.

regards
Ram Gupta