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7 Multi-tasking

value

MostNeg) at the bottom of the memory space.

Figure 7.4 A process queue

7.4

Timeslicing

The ST20-C1 includes support for timeslicing. Timeslicing is a safeguard in a multi-

tasking environment to prevent any one process from taking too much processor time.

Exception handlers are not timesliced.

A timeslicing counter is provided as a field of the status register called the

timeslice_count. It is reset to

MaxTimesliceCount each time a user process is loaded

from the scheduling queue into the CPU. The counter is decremented regularly until it

reaches 0, and then stays at 0. A timeslice is due when the counter value is 0.

If a

timeslice instruction is executed when a timeslice is due and timeslicing is enabled

then:

• the timeslice trap will be taken if it is installed;

• otherwise the current process will be timesliced, i.e. the current process is

placed on the back of the scheduling queue and the process on the front of the

scheduling queue is loaded into the CPU for execution.

If an exception occurs, the value of the counter is saved with the status register and

reloaded when the interrupted or trapped process is restarted. This ensures that a

process will be executed for roughly the same time regardless of whether it was inter-

rupted or trapped.

The timeslice_enable bit of the status register can be used to enable or disable

timeslicing. Timeslicing is enabled when the bit is set. This bit is preserved when a

process is descheduled, so it may be treated as global among user processes. Times-

licing must not be enabled in exception handlers.

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Queue control block

Process descriptor blocks

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