On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:04, Robert Shearman wrote:
The last time a discussion like this came up, we (Wine developers and Cedega developers) requested a way of changing a thread's relative priority within a process (without affecting the overall CPU time the process gets)
This is far from trivial to implement in the kernel - I wouldn't count on it happening in anything approaching a reasonable time frame, and I'd bet against it being done at all.
If we want to be able to increase the priority of a thread, I suspect that the only reasonable way to do so (that stands a chance of being done) will be by means of either a helper process that runs as root or a kernel module, and I would lean towards the helper process as being the preferable solution.