Scheduling in Linux Kernel

There are two ways that you can set priorities in scheduling. sched_setscheduler sched_getscheduler You can do man sched_setscheduler to know more. sched_setscheduler sets scheduling policy and parameters. The other option is to use setpriority- This sets the nice value. A brief guide to priority and nice value In Linux system priorities are 0 to 139 in which 0 to 99 for real-time and 100 to 139 for users. Nice value — Nice values are user-space values that we can use to control the priority of a process. ...