Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Till Straumann <[email protected]> · Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:35:09 -0800

I have an application with hard real-time demands
and I want to make sure it has a higher priority
than any of EPICS' threads.
Wouldn't it make sense to have a range of priorities
who are guaranteed to be unused by EPICS?
E.g. have
epicsThreadPriorityMax = 95
epicsThreadPriorityMaxMax = 99
and EPICS still checking that itself is never using
a priority > epicsThreadPriorityMax.
epicsThreadMaxMax would then be reserved for user
tasks.
Second question: if I create such a high priority
thread (currently not by using EPICS OSI but a generic
RTEMS call) - I guess it should be safe for that thread
to call EPICS primitives who are safe to call from IRQ context
(such as 'callbackRequest()'), right?
-- Till.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System