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Adding Multitasking Capability to Applications Using Multiprocessing Services

   

Creating and Scheduling Tasks

Multiprocessing Services provides the following functions for creating and manipulating preemptive tasks:

• MPCreateTask creates a preemptive task.
• MPTerminateTask terminates an existing task.
• MPExit allows a task to terminate itself.
• MPCurrentTaskID obtains the task ID of the current preemptive task.
• MPYield allows a task to yield the processor to another task.
• MPSetTaskWeight assigns a relative weight to a task, indicating how much processor time it should receive compared to other available tasks.
• MPTaskIsPreemptive determines whether a task is preemptively scheduled.