Re:[ECOS] How to know whether currently there is any thread ready to run?

["Young Jay" <young_jay at sohu dot com>]

Hi, Jonathan:

Thank you for your reply. I tried, but it doesn't give the result I need. 
When I referred to an eCos book, "Embedded Software Development with eCos", 
which is written by Anthony J. Massa, I noticed that the function cyg_thread_self
returns the handle of current thread, and can only be called by current thread.

Thus I think I can't use this function in interrupt_end or RTC's DSR to seek the 
current thread ready to run. Right?


Best regards,
Young Jay


-----  Original Message  -----
From: Jonathan Larmour 
To: Young Jay 
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com 
Subject: Re: [ECOS] How to know whether currently there is any thread ready
 to run?
Sent: Thu Mar 04 11:15:46 CST 2004

> Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > Young Jay wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello, all:
> >>
> >>In my design, when performing the real time clock interrupt ISR, I'd
> >>like to know if there is any thread just getting ready to run after a
> >>time delay. Thus I can decide whether the system power mode should be
> >>changed. Is there a function designed for this need? Thanks a lot for
> >>you concern.
> > 
> > 
> > Sort of. After the clock *D*SR runs, possibly by editting interrupt_end
> > before the scheduler unlock, you can compare the handle returned against
> > the idle thread, e.g. by testing cyg_thread_get_priority( cyg_thread_self()
> > ) == 31.
> 
> Duh, forget the last bit - the idle thread handle is exported using the 
> function:
> 
> cyg_handle_t cyg_thread_idle_thread(void);
> 
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