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Re: Thread activation disturbed by lower priority threads]
Hi
To have more detailed info about this, you could turn on kernel
instrumentation and enable CLOCK, MUTEX and SCHEDULER events. For more
info, see here :
http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/user-guide/kernel-instrumentation.html
I tried a little bit with the kernel instrumentation, but could not get
any results I could handle.
What i did was to further investigate which of my mutexes was the
problematic one. And it is the one
I initiali thought will make a problem.
This mutex locks at some stage each of my threads. As soon as I remove
this mutex (with special test apps this is not a problem) the scheduling
is as expected. As soon as I add the mutex I get the problem again. Even
the thread which is disturbed will access the mutex later in its
execution its activation is delayed. It looks as this mutex gets an very
high priority although I use priority inheritance.
For my current test I found it that priority inversion will not be a big
problem. At least currently. So i'm fine without a priority inversion
protocol.
Nonetheless Its ok for me to further investigate the problem if I can
help to improve eCos.
cheers
Alil
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