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Featured FreeRTOS IoT Integrations:
Introducing three featured integrations for more secure IoT applications. See the blog post.
Extended Maintenance Plan (EMP):
Announcing the EMP for FreeRTOS, provided by AWS. See the blog post.
Delta Over-the-Air Updates:
Announcing Delta OTA updates. See the blog post.
December 2021 Releases:
Include MCUBoot demo and a new FreeRTOS download. See the blog post.
FreeRTOS LTS libraries:
The LTS libraries are now included in our partner toolchains. See the blog post.
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FreeRTOS FAQ - Scheduling

This is a subsection of the full FAQ

What is the FreeRTOS scheduling policy?
How are tasks of equal priority scheduled?
How are tasks that share the idle priority scheduled?


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What is the FreeRTOS scheduling policy?

See the page dedicated to describing both the single core and multicore scheduling policies.


How are tasks of equal priority scheduled?

Round robin - Ready state tasks that share a priority "take turns" to run.


How are tasks that share the idle priority scheduled?

As per tasks that share any other priority. However, the configIDLE_SHOULD_YIELD configuration constant can be used to force the idle task to yield after a single iteration of its loop if other idle priority application tasks are able to run.






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