[PATCH] eal/unix: allow creating thread with real-time priority

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:44:25 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> > > 
> > > I'll try to pass the test by adding a sleep in the test thread.
> > >   
> > 
> > "sched_yield()" rather than sleep perhaps? Might better convey the
> > intention of the call.  
> 
> Do we have sched_yield on Windows?

Windows has an equivalent but sched_yield() won't work here.
Since the DPDK thread is still higher priority than the kernel thread,
the scheduler will reschedule the DPDK thread. You need to sleep
to let kthread run.