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From: "Jonas Persson" <jonas.persson@comsys.se>
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Subject: Weird scheduling problem
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:27:13 +0200
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Hi all,

I have a strange scheduling problem. Let's say I have two (RTL-) threads, A and B, which interact in the following way - B, which has higher priority, calls sem_wait on a semaphore. Whenever A has one piece of data ready for B, A calls sem_post on the same semaphore. 

For whatever reason, when running this example A runs one cycle and so does B. But when I insert another module, being another RTLinux program, whenever usleep() is called from there, both A and B runs another cycle! 

Both A and B are periodic processes with the same periodicity, but only A make calls to pthread_make_periodic_np and pthread_wait_np since B waits for the semaphore and has higher priority than A.

Any thought appreciated!

Regards,
Jonas

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