Tick interrupt priority?

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Thu Sep 19 04:38:57 UTC 2019


On 19/9/19 2:31 pm, groups at chichak.ca wrote:
> Super, I’ll have to review my projects to see if I did it right.
> 
> Granted, it should only come into play when there is interrupt contention, but these are the sorts of things that cause subtle issues.

I should also mention what I said implies the hardware timer has an automatic
reload so the latency of the timer interrupt is not a factor in the overall
stability of the tick period. If software needs to reload the timer then the
priority can be a factor.

Chris



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