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[Joel Sherrill]

Mark Vander Voord wrote:

>Does using the Rate Monotonic Scheduler override the standard
>priority-based scheduling in some way?
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No.  It just establishes the main loop of the task as periodic.  Nothing
magical about it.

> In my init function, I am launching a task which has been configured
>to run using an RMS period.  I have the following RTEMS options
>defined (among other, unrelated options):
>
> #define CONFIGURE_INIT_TASK_PRIORITY
>              1
> #define CONFIGURE_INIT_TASK_ATTRIBUTES             
>RTEMS_FLOATING_POINT | RTEMS_LOCAL
> #define CONFIGURE_INIT_TASK_INITIAL_MODES           RTEMS_NO_PREEMPT
>| RTEMS_NO_TIMESLICE
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> With these settings, I believe that the INIT task would be
>un-interruptable by any other task until it have finished or parked. 
>However, this is not the case.  As soon as I have created the task
>mentioned above (which has a priority of 25 and a rate of 5msec), that
>task is immediately run.  It continues to run every 5msec from then
>on, taking priority over the INIT task.
>
> Are there other settings that I am missing to get the behavior that I
>desire, or do I need to delay creation of the RMS period?
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I don't see anything particularly wrong.  All you really changed from 
default
in the above was to add floating point to the attributes.  Can you post 
your init.c
and use of confdefs.h?

>Mark S VanderVoord
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