[ECOS] When or on what condition does "deschedule" happen?

[ariga masahiro]

Hello everyone,

Thank you very much for your answers.
I've almost got it.
I only need one more affirmation from you.

>> If ThreadA does not finish and enter looping state,then isn't there any
>> way for ThreadC to resume execution ?
>
> Nope. The highest priority runnable thread always runs. All high
> priority threads need to finish doing what they are doing before a
> lower priority threads get to run.
>
Am I correct in thinking that this policy applys also to bitmap scheduler ?

Masahiro Ariga

>> My question is last part of Deschedule when ThreadC resumes execution.
>>
>> Am I correct in assuming that among your conditions, only two conditions
>> should be fullfiled to make it possible
>> for ThreadC to resume execution ?
>> 1.When the thread blocks.(How does scheduler recognise this ?)
>
> Blocking calls are part of the OS and the scheduler knows about them.
>
>> 2.When a thread exits.
>>
>> If ThreadA does not finish and enter looping state,then isn't there any
>> way for ThreadC to resume execution ?
>
> Nope. The highest priority runnable thread always runs. All high
> priority threads need to finish doing what they are doing before a
> lower priority threads get to run.
>
>         Andrew
>
> 



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