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CONFIG_NUM_METAIRQ_PRIORITIES¶
Number of very-high priority ‘preemptor’ threads
Type: int
Help¶
This defines a set of priorities at the (numerically) lowest end of the range which have “meta-irq” behavior. Runnable threads at these priorities will always be scheduled before threads at lower priorities, EVEN IF those threads are otherwise cooperative and/or have taken a scheduler lock. Making such a thread runnable in any way thus has the effect of “interrupting” the current task and running the meta-irq thread synchronously, like an exception or system call. The intent is to use these priorities to implement “interrupt bottom half” or “tasklet” behavior, allowing driver subsystems to return from interrupt context but be guaranteed that user code will not be executed (on the current CPU) until the remaining work is finished. As this breaks the “promise” of non-preemptibility granted by the current API for cooperative threads, this tool probably shouldn’t be used from application code.
Defaults¶
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Kconfig definition¶
At kernel/Kconfig:99
Included via Kconfig:10 → Kconfig.zephyr:31
Menu path: (top menu) → General Kernel Options
config NUM_METAIRQ_PRIORITIES
int
prompt "Number of very-high priority 'preemptor' threads"
default 0
help
This defines a set of priorities at the (numerically) lowest
end of the range which have "meta-irq" behavior. Runnable
threads at these priorities will always be scheduled before
threads at lower priorities, EVEN IF those threads are
otherwise cooperative and/or have taken a scheduler lock.
Making such a thread runnable in any way thus has the effect
of "interrupting" the current task and running the meta-irq
thread synchronously, like an exception or system call. The
intent is to use these priorities to implement "interrupt
bottom half" or "tasklet" behavior, allowing driver
subsystems to return from interrupt context but be guaranteed
that user code will not be executed (on the current CPU)
until the remaining work is finished. As this breaks the
"promise" of non-preemptibility granted by the current API
for cooperative threads, this tool probably shouldn't be used
from application code.
(Definitions include propagated dependencies, including from if’s and menus.)