Currently, chrt requires a priority argument even for scheduling policies like SCHED_OTHER and SCHED_BATCH, which ignore it. This change relaxes that requirement. Now, priority is only expected for SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR. For other policies, a default value of 0 is set internally and no argument is required on the command line. This simplifies usage when modifying runtime parameters like --sched-runtime for non-realtime tasks. For example, to change the EEVDF tunable base_slice, one currently needs to run: chrt -v -o -T 1000000 -p 0 $PID Passing '0' after -p is not intutive and not required as priority is not applicable to SCHED_OTHER tasks. Now with this patch, one can do: chrt -v -o -T 1000000 -p $PID Passing '0' still works ensuring ABI doesn't break. Signed-off-by: Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- schedutils/chrt.c | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/schedutils/chrt.c b/schedutils/chrt.c index cf99935dc..339f3e318 100644 --- a/schedutils/chrt.c +++ b/schedutils/chrt.c @@ -495,20 +495,26 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) } } - if (((ctl->pid > -1) && argc - optind < 1) || - ((ctl->pid == -1) && argc - optind < 2)) { + bool policy_needs_priority = (ctl->policy == SCHED_FIFO || ctl->policy == SCHED_RR); + + if (((ctl->pid > -1) && argc - optind < (policy_needs_priority ? 1 : 0)) || + ((ctl->pid == -1) && argc - optind < (policy_needs_priority ? 2 : 1))) { warnx(_("bad usage")); errtryhelp(EXIT_FAILURE); } - if ((ctl->pid > -1) && (ctl->verbose || argc - optind == 1)) { + if ((ctl->pid > -1) && (ctl->verbose || argc - optind == (policy_needs_priority ? 1 : 0))) { show_sched_info(ctl); - if (argc - optind == 1) + if (argc - optind == (policy_needs_priority ? 1 : 0)) return EXIT_SUCCESS; } errno = 0; - ctl->priority = strtos32_or_err(argv[optind], _("invalid priority argument")); + + if (policy_needs_priority || argc - optind == 2) + ctl->priority = strtos32_or_err(argv[optind], _("invalid priority argument")); + else + ctl->priority = 0; if (ctl->runtime && !supports_runtime_param(ctl->policy)) errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("--sched-runtime option is supported for %s"), -- 2.49.0