Add support for changing a threads scheduler group. Three groups are available (default, background non interactive, foreground boost). Setting a thread priority to PRIORITY_BACKGROUND will transparently change groups to background
Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@google.com>
diff --git a/include/utils/threads.h b/include/utils/threads.h
index 8d8d46a..b320915 100644
--- a/include/utils/threads.h
+++ b/include/utils/threads.h
@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@
ANDROID_PRIORITY_LESS_FAVORABLE = +1,
};
+enum {
+ ANDROID_TGROUP_DEFAULT = 0,
+ ANDROID_TGROUP_BG_NONINTERACT = 1,
+ ANDROID_TGROUP_FG_BOOST = 2,
+ ANDROID_TGROUP_MAX = ANDROID_TGROUP_FG_BOOST,
+};
+
// Create and run a new thread.
extern int androidCreateThread(android_thread_func_t, void *);