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Effects of a long running callback in a periodic RtosTimer

If I understand correctly, a periodic RtosTimer will fire the callback at the same interval, regardless of the callback execution time. The diagram below illustrates this for a 200ms timer.

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What happens if the callback execution time exceeds 200ms?

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