From 7ec1259bd719cbccc35d25862f8c8b0659f17964 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kaustubhprabhu <devnull@localhost>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:29:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added setpriority to increase the priority of execution

---
 src/iperf_api.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/iperf_api.c b/src/iperf_api.c
index b06e2d1..034aaa9 100644
--- a/src/iperf_api.c
+++ b/src/iperf_api.c
@@ -1695,6 +1695,17 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
     struct iperf_test *test;
     int port= 5001;
     
+    
+    //increasing the priority of the process to minimise packet generation
+    //delay    
+    int rc =  setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS,0, -15);
+    if(rc < 0)
+    {
+        perror("setpriority:");
+        printf("setting priority to valid level\n");
+        rc =  setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS,0, 1);        
+    }
+    
     while (1)
     {
         test = iperf_new_test();