[En-Nut-Discussion] Kill the idle thread?

[Henrik Maier]

Thanks for all the replies.

I did play around with the idea a bit but the practical challenge seems to
kill the idle thread from another thread.

The other option of hacking the Nut/OS core and modify nutinit.c is feasable
but probably not worth it for the sake of saving some 384 bytes of stack
space.

Henrik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: en-nut-discussion-bounces at egnite.de [mailto:en-nut-discussion-
> bounces at egnite.de] On Behalf Of Ulrich Prinz
> Sent: Saturday, 11 September 2010 2:26 AM
> To: Ethernut User Chat (English)
> Subject: Re: [En-Nut-Discussion] Kill the idle thread?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> But don't forget that the garbage collector for threads is running
> there... If you ever kill a thread, you don't get the heap back.
> 
> Greets
> Ulrich
> 
> Am 10.09.2010 16:02, schrieb Matthias Ringwald:
> > Hi Henrik
> >
> > LOL...
> >
> > if you like, just patch Nut/OS to not create the IDLE thread,
> somewhere in the startup. Not sure, if anybody will miss it (mostly the
> scheduler...)
> >
> > Best,
> >   Matthias
> >
> > On 10.09.2010, at 15:13, Henrik Maier wrote:
> >
> >> Just out of curiosity, could one kill the idle thread?
> >>
> >> Why? Just to save some resource as I anyway have main as the lowest
> priority
> >> thread and this is never surrendering any CPU time. So idle has no
> chance to
> >> ever run.
> >>
> >> Kind Regards
> >>
> >> Henrik
> >>
> >>
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