sched_rr_get_interval(2)

NAME
sched_rr_get_interval - get the SCHED_RR interval for the named process

LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
#include <sched.h>

int sched_rr_get_interval(pid_t pid, struct timespec *tp);

DESCRIPTION
sched_rr_get_interval() writes into the timespec(3) structure pointed to by tp the round-robin time quantum for the process identified by pid. The specified process should be running under the SCHED_RR scheduling policy.

If pid is zero, the time quantum for the calling process is written into *tp.

RETURN VALUE
On success, sched_rr_get_interval() returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

EFAULT
    Problem with copying information to user space.

EINVAL
    Invalid pid.

ENOSYS
    The system call is not yet implemented (only on rather old kernels).

ESRCH
    Could not find a process with the ID pid.

VERSIONS

  Linux
Linux 3.9 added a new mechanism for adjusting (and viewing) the SCHED_RR quantum: the /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms file exposes the quantum as a millisecond value, whose default is 100. Writing 0 to this file resets the quantum to the default value.

STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2024.

HISTORY
POSIX.1-2001.

  Linux
POSIX does not specify any mechanism for controlling the size of the round-robin time quantum. Older Linux kernels provide a (nonportable) method of doing this. The quantum can be controlled by adjusting the process's nice value (see setpriority(2)). Assigning a negative (i.e., high) nice value results in a longer quantum; assigning a positive (i.e., low) nice value results in a shorter quantum. The default quantum is 0.1 seconds; the degree to which changing the nice value affects the quantum has varied somewhat across kernel versions. This method of adjusting the quantum was removed starting with Linux 2.6.24.

NOTES
POSIX systems on which sched_rr_get_interval() is available define _POSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING in <unistd.h>.

SEE ALSO
timespec(3), sched(7)