Practice - Tasks, Task States, and Context Switching
Practice Questions
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What are tasks in the context of an RTOS?
💡 Hint: Think about what operations need scheduling in an embedded environment.
List the four main task states in an RTOS.
💡 Hint: Remember the acronym RPC.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What state is a task in when it is actively executing on the CPU?
💡 Hint: Recall the task states we've discussed.
True or False: A task in the Blocked state can continue executing.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when a task is waiting.
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Challenge Problems
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Describe a scenario where context switching might cause performance degradation and provide ways to minimize it.
💡 Hint: Think about the impact of too many tasks on a CPU.
Analyze how increasing the number of suspended tasks might affect an RTOS scheduler's efficiency.
💡 Hint: Consider resource management in embedded systems.
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