Network tasks priorities

[Thomas Doerfler]

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Leon,

your requirements seem to be very special. Maybe in your network driver
the Rx daemon can modify its own priority as soon as it gets started,
using the corresponding Classic API call?

wkr,
Thomas.

Leon Pollak wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> My application is rather critical to the loss of data on the Ethernet input, 
> but totally ignorant to the transmission timing.
> 
> For this purpose I would like to assign the highest possible priority to the 
> Ethernet Rx daemon, while Tx daemon may be very low.
> 
> But the rtems_bsdnet_newproc function does not allow me to do this, as it uses 
> the one networkDaemonPriority for all calls.
> 
> May be it will worth to add one more 'priority' parameter to this 
> rtems_bsdnet_newproc function?
> 
> Thanks.


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