Tick interrupt priority?

[Chris Johns]

On 19/9/19 2:16 pm, groups at chichak.ca wrote:
> I was reviewing the interrupt priorities on a project where I’m using FreeRTOS and they want the tick interrupt priority to be very low.
> 
> I found this to be not obvious, then started wondering what the elders of the RTEMS suggest for use with RTEMS.
> 
> Should the tick interrupt be high priority or low?

If all that is happening is the OS tick entry point is being called then I set
the priority below any other sources. If the OS tick routine expires a timer and
readies a task that task will not be dispatched until the outer most interrupt
exits so being any higher does not gain you anything.

Chris