I am developing with MQX RTOS using MQX 5.0, and I have a question regarding the creation of tasks.
I've gotten to the point that can start tasks by filling out a TASK_TEMPLATE_STRUCT MQX_template_list[] array with the following:
{ Task Index, Function, Stack, Priority, Name, Attributes, Param, Time Slice }
followed by officially creating the task with the following call:
_task_create(0, Task Index, param); // send param to the task to control which data the task works on.
I've found that it is possible to call task_create with the same task index multiple times. This is desirable for the application I'm working on... and it the application seems to run OK so far.
Is there any downside to creating tasks this way? I've put code around this to limit the creation of "duplicate tasks" to 20.
The one obvious thing I can think of is that I need to consider the allocation "Stack" to be 20x if all 20 were duplicates were required at the same time.
Obviously I've left out some of the implementation details of what the function is doing... but param changes what data the task (or duplicate tasks) are working on, with a variable _time_delay() in each task (determined by the data the task is working on).
If further clarification is needed to answer this question, let me know.
Jason
