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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 08, 1993
Kazuaki Tanaka, Sagamihara, JP;
Sadasaburo Kanai, Yokohama, JP;
Shoji Yamamoto, Chigasaki, JP;
Takashi Sumiyoshi, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuhiko Fujii, Kawasaki, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A computer system including a plurality of shared resources to be used exclusively by a plurality of tasks. Upon occurrence of an interrupt, execution of the task running at that time is suspended to allow the interrupt task to be executed. After execution of the interrupt task, one of the tasks remaining in the execution waiting state is selected for execution. A method of scheduling tasks with priority to the task locking a shared resource includes the steps of registering a task identifier of a task being executed upon locking of the task to a resource, invalidating the registered identifier of the task when that task releases the shared resource from the locked state, deciding whether or not a valid task identifier representing the task which was running by locking the shared resource is registered when a task to be executed next is to be selected after execution of the interrupt task, and selecting the task designated by the task identifier, if registered, to thereby select the task as the one to be executed with priority.