[alsa-devel] alsa-utils say -c is sched_idle, but actually set sched_rr (BUG?)

[Jaroslav Kysela]

Dne 02. 12. 19 v 16:17 tommy napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not subscribed to the list.  I was looking for uses of SCHED_IDLE in
> software in general when I stubled upon this.  Although I have no personal
> interest in asla development, I thought it would be nice to report it here.
> 
> alsa-project/alsa-utils commit 611249ae26f435429dbe1894e210704a723ee277 says:
> 
>      alsactl: add --nice and --sched-idle options
> 
>      The state management can run at low priority, add --nice and --sched-idle
>      options to set the scheduler.
> 
> 
> Everywhere in the code it says SCHED_IDLE *except* for the actual call to
> sched_setscheduler() which instead sets the policy to SCHED_RR.  I have
> looked twice to see that I don't miss anything obvious, and suspect this is
> an error, or that there should be a comment that explains this oddity.

Thanks, fixed in 34e373d0b12d96353c49c3dcd73ec52eee11484a .

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.