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authorJosh Blum <josh@joshknows.com>2010-06-16 18:40:44 -0700
committerJosh Blum <josh@joshknows.com>2010-06-16 18:40:44 -0700
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uhd: work on thread priority scheduling
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@@ -58,14 +58,12 @@ Misc notes
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Process scheduling
+Thread priority scheduling
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-The UHD will try to automatically boost the process's scheduling priority.
-Currently, this is only supported on platforms with *sched.h*.
-
+When the UHD spawns a new thread it may try to boost the thread's scheduling priority.
When setting the priority fails, the UHD prints out an error.
-This error is harmless, it simply means that your process will have a normal scheduling priority.
+This error is harmless, it simply means that the thread will have a normal scheduling priority.
**Linux Notes:**