[PATCH] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 08:08:52AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:44:25 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > I'll try to pass the test by adding a sleep in the test thread.
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > "sched_yield()" rather than sleep perhaps? Might better convey the
> > > intention of the call.  
> > 
> > Do we have sched_yield on Windows?
> 
> Windows has an equivalent but sched_yield() won't work here.
> Since the DPDK thread is still higher priority than the kernel thread,
> the scheduler will reschedule the DPDK thread. You need to sleep
> to let kthread run.

Interesting. Thanks for clarifying the situation.