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Priorities and Nesting

Every interrupt on a Cortex-M comes out of reset at priority 0 — the most urgent level there is. A program that enables six interrupts and never calls NVIC_SetPriority has six handlers that all sit at the top, none of which can pre-empt any other, serviced in exception-number order when several arrive at once. That configuration is not "no priority scheme". It is a specific, and usually wrong, priority scheme: it says every interrupt in the system is equally urgent and none may interrupt another, which means the worst-case latency of your fastest deadline is the sum of every other handler's execution time.