import platform if platform.system() == 'Darwin': from ctypes import ( CDLL, POINTER, Structure, byref, c_int, c_uint, c_uint32, c_void_p, sizeof ) from ctypes.util import find_library class ThreadTimeConstraintPolicy(Structure): _fields_ = [ ("period", c_uint32), ("computation", c_uint32), ("constraint", c_uint32), ("preemptible", c_uint) ] _libc = CDLL(find_library('c')) THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY = c_uint(2) THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY_COUNT = c_uint( int(sizeof(ThreadTimeConstraintPolicy) / sizeof(c_int))) _libc.pthread_self.restype = c_void_p _libc.pthread_mach_thread_np.restype = c_uint _libc.pthread_mach_thread_np.argtypes = [c_void_p] _libc.thread_policy_get.restype = c_int _libc.thread_policy_get.argtypes = [ c_uint, c_uint, c_void_p, POINTER(c_uint), POINTER(c_uint) ] _libc.thread_policy_set.restype = c_int _libc.thread_policy_set.argtypes = [ c_uint, c_uint, c_void_p, c_uint ] def _mach_thread_self(): return _libc.pthread_mach_thread_np(_libc.pthread_self()) def _get_time_constraint_policy(default=False): thread = _mach_thread_self() policy_info = ThreadTimeConstraintPolicy() policy_infoCnt = THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY_COUNT get_default = c_uint(default) kret = _libc.thread_policy_get( thread, THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY, byref(policy_info), byref(policy_infoCnt), byref(get_default)) if kret != 0: return None return policy_info def _set_time_constraint_policy(policy_info): thread = _mach_thread_self() policy_infoCnt = THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY_COUNT kret = _libc.thread_policy_set( thread, THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY, byref(policy_info), policy_infoCnt) if kret != 0: raise OSError(kret) def set_high_priority(): policy_info = _get_time_constraint_policy(default=True) if not policy_info: return policy_info.preemptible = c_uint(False) _set_time_constraint_policy(policy_info)