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NAME="KERNEL-THREAD-CONTROL">Thread control</H1
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>cyg_thread_yield, cyg_thread_delay, cyg_thread_suspend, cyg_thread_resume, cyg_thread_release&nbsp;--&nbsp;Control whether or not a thread is running</DIV
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>#include &lt;cyg/kernel/kapi.h&gt;
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>void cyg_thread_yield</CODE
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>void cyg_thread_delay</CODE
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>These functions provide some control over whether or not a particular
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thread can run. Apart from the required use of
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>cyg_thread_resume</TT
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thread, application code should normally use proper synchronization
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primitives such as condition variables or mail boxes.
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>Yield</H2
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>cyg_thread_yield</TT
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control of the processor to some other runnable thread which has the
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same priority. This can have no effect on any higher-priority thread
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since, if such a thread were runnable, the current thread would have
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been preempted in its favour. Similarly it can have no effect on any
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lower-priority thread because the current thread will always be run in
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preference to those. As a consequence this function is only useful
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at the same priority, for example the mlqueue scheduler. If instead
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the bitmap scheduler was being used then
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>Even if a suitable scheduler such as the mlqueue scheduler has been
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threads of a given priority get a fair slice of the available
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processor time. However it is possible to disable timeslicing via the
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functionality depends on the presence of a real-time system clock, as
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>Associated with each thread is a suspend counter. When a thread is
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it. The scheduler will never run a thread with a non-zero suspend
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>An occasional problem with the use of suspend and resume functionality
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resumes, with a reasonable default value. This functionality depends
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threads that have been designed appropriately and check all return
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