Add a PBD API to set pthread priority

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/libs/pbd/base_ui.cc b/libs/pbd/base_ui.cc
index b04b755ec8..36c6216d45 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/base_ui.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/base_ui.cc
@@ -82,30 +82,7 @@ BaseUI::new_request_type ()
 int
 BaseUI::set_thread_priority (const int policy, int priority) const
 {
-	struct sched_param param;
-	memset (&param, 0, sizeof (param));
-
-	/* POSIX requires a spread of at least 32 steps between min..max */
-	const int p_min = sched_get_priority_min (policy); // Linux: 1
-	const int p_max = sched_get_priority_max (policy); // Linux: 99
-
-	if (priority == 0) {
-		/* use default. XXX this should be relative to audio (JACK) thread,
-		 * internal backends use -20 (Audio), -21 (MIDI), -22 (compuation)
-		 */
-		priority = 7;
-	}
-
-	if (priority > 0) {
-		priority += p_min;
-	} else {
-		priority += p_max;
-	}
-	if (priority > p_max) priority = p_max;
-	if (priority < p_min) priority = p_min;
-	param.sched_priority = priority;
-
-	return pthread_setschedparam (pthread_self(), SCHED_FIFO, &param);
+	return pbd_set_thread_priority (pthread_self(), policy, priority);
 }
 
 void