Doubt regarding thread creation in RTEMS

[Richi Dubey]

Hi,

I am trying to map out how a task gets scheduled according to a scheduling
algorithm once a user writes rtems_task_create() and later
rtems_task_start() in the source file.

On debugging with gdb, I came to realize that the

rtems_task_start() function calls _Thread_Start()
(cpukit/rtems/src/taskstart.c : 56) then _Thread_Start() calls
_Thread_Dispatch_enable() ( cpukit/score/src/threadstart.c : 50 ) then
_Thread_Dispatch_enable() calls _Thread_Do_dispatch( )
(cpukit/score/src/threaddispatch.c : 377)
and _Thread_Do_dispatch calls  _Thread_Get_heir_and_make_it_executing()
(threaddispatch.c : 282).

_Thread_Get_heir_and_make_it_executing( cpu_self ) forcefully executes the
heir thread on the cpu_self. (cpukit/include/rtems/score/threadimpl.h :
1117)

If I am right, this flow of code makes the thread created by
rtems_task_create(..., id) execute on a CPU when rtems_task_start(..., id)
is called.  Shouldn't this decision of executing a thread on any CPU be in
the hands of the scheduler?  I'd be grateful if someone could provide their
views on this.

Also, what is thread_dispatch_disable_level?

Please know that I skipped reading some if conditions and some code related
to ISRs and other things that weren't directly related to scheduling.

Thanks,
Richi.
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