Is it possible to pause FreeRTOS?

I use FreeRTOS in our AVR32 project. I have a section of codes that are *VERY* time-sensitive, so I would like to pause FreeRTOS temporary while polling a hardware counter, when the counter expires, I will resume RTOS Is this possible? Thanks!

Is it possible to pause FreeRTOS?

vTaskSuspendAll()?

Is it possible to pause FreeRTOS?

If it is really time critical, you probably want to disable the interrupts, so nothing can interfere with the code. No interrupts, not possibility of preemption..

Is it possible to pause FreeRTOS?

Thank you both, I will give it a try!