examples: remove thread priority elevation

Remove UHD call to elevate thread priority to realtime. Setting all
threads to the same realtime priority can cause the threads to not share
access to the network interface fairly, which adversely affects
operation of the worker threads in UHD.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/host/examples/benchmark_rate.cpp b/host/examples/benchmark_rate.cpp
index 6c2c6868d..539958ede 100644
--- a/host/examples/benchmark_rate.cpp
+++ b/host/examples/benchmark_rate.cpp
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@ void benchmark_rx_rate(uhd::usrp::multi_usrp::sptr usrp,
     const boost::posix_time::ptime& start_time,
     std::atomic<bool>& burst_timer_elapsed)
 {
-    uhd::set_thread_priority_safe();
-
     // print pre-test summary
     std::cout << boost::format("[%s] Testing receive rate %f Msps on %u channels") % NOW()
                      % (usrp->get_rx_rate() / 1e6) % rx_stream->get_num_channels()
@@ -192,8 +190,6 @@ void benchmark_tx_rate(uhd::usrp::multi_usrp::sptr usrp,
     const boost::posix_time::ptime& start_time,
     bool random_nsamps = false)
 {
-    uhd::set_thread_priority_safe();
-
     // print pre-test summary
     std::cout << boost::format("[%s] Testing transmit rate %f Msps on %u channels")
                      % NOW() % (usrp->get_tx_rate() / 1e6) % tx_stream->get_num_channels()
@@ -297,8 +293,6 @@ void benchmark_tx_rate_async_helper(uhd::tx_streamer::sptr tx_stream,
  **********************************************************************/
 int UHD_SAFE_MAIN(int argc, char* argv[])
 {
-    uhd::set_thread_priority_safe();
-
     // variables to be set by po
     std::string args;
     std::string rx_subdev, tx_subdev;