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D.2.2 The Standard Task Dispatching Policy
Syntax
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The form of
a pragma Task_Dispatching_Policy
is as follows:
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pragma Task_Dispatching_Policy(
policy_identifier
);
Legality Rules
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The
policy_identifier
shall either be FIFO_Within_Priorities or an implementation-defined
identifier.
Post-Compilation Rules
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A Task_Dispatching_Policy
pragma is a configuration pragma.
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If the FIFO_Within_Priorities policy is specified
for a partition, then the Ceiling_Locking policy (see
D.3)
shall also be specified for the partition.
Dynamic Semantics
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A
task dispatching policy
specifies the details of task dispatching that are not covered by the
basic task dispatching model. These rules govern when tasks are inserted
into and deleted from the ready queues, and whether a task is inserted
at the head or the tail of the queue for its active priority. The task
dispatching policy is specified by a Task_Dispatching_Policy configuration
pragma.
If no such pragma appears in any of the program
units comprising a partition, the task dispatching policy for that partition
is unspecified.
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The language defines
only one task dispatching policy, FIFO_Within_Priorities; when this policy
is in effect, modifications to the ready queues occur only as follows:
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- When a blocked task becomes ready,
it is added at the tail of the ready queue for its active priority.
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- When the active priority of a ready
task that is not running changes, or the setting of its base priority
takes effect, the task is removed from the ready queue for its old active
priority and is added at the tail of the ready queue for its new active
priority, except in the case where the active priority is lowered due
to the loss of inherited priority, in which case the task is added at
the head of the ready queue for its new active priority.
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- When the setting of the base priority
of a running task takes effect, the task is added to the tail of the
ready queue for its active priority.
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- When a task executes a delay_statement
that does not result in blocking, it is added to the tail of the ready
queue for its active priority.
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Each
of the events specified above is a task dispatching point (see
D.2.1).
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In addition, when a task is preempted, it is
added at the head of the ready queue for its active priority.
Documentation Requirements
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Priority
inversion is the duration for which a task remains at the head of
the highest priority ready queue while the processor executes a lower
priority task. The implementation shall document:
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- The maximum priority inversion a user
task can experience due to activity of the implementation (on behalf
of lower priority tasks), and
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- whether execution of a task can be
preempted by the implementation processing of delay expirations for lower
priority tasks, and if so, for how long.
Implementation Permissions
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Implementations are allowed to define other task
dispatching policies, but need not support more than one such policy
per partition.
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For optimization purposes, an implementation
may alter the points at which task dispatching occurs, in an implementation
defined manner. However, a delay_statement
always corresponds to at least one task dispatching point.
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13 If the active priority
of a running task is lowered due to loss of inherited priority (as it
is on completion of a protected operation) and there is a ready task
of the same active priority that is not running, the running task continues
to run (provided that there is no higher priority task).
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14 The setting of a task's
base priority as a result of a call to Set_Priority does not always take
effect immediately when Set_Priority is called. The effect of setting
the task's base priority is deferred while the affected task performs
a protected action.
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15 Setting the base priority
of a ready task causes the task to move to the end of the queue for its
active priority, regardless of whether the active priority of the task
actually changes.
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