Practice Tasks, Task States, And Context Switching (7.2) - Modelling and Specification - A Deep Dive into Embedded System Abstraction
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Tasks, Task States, and Context Switching

Practice - Tasks, Task States, and Context Switching

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What are tasks in the context of an RTOS?

💡 Hint: Think about what operations need scheduling in an embedded environment.

Question 2 Easy

List the four main task states in an RTOS.

💡 Hint: Remember the acronym RPC.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What state is a task in when it is actively executing on the CPU?

Ready
Running
Blocked

💡 Hint: Recall the task states we've discussed.

Question 2

True or False: A task in the Blocked state can continue executing.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when a task is waiting.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

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.

Challenge 2 Hard

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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