Harmony ISR and FreeRTOS Deferred Interrupt Processing Issue

Hi all
I'm trying to implement a simple deferred interrupt processing example by using a FreeRTOS Direct to Task Notification.  The basic outline I'm trying to use is Example 2.
 
freertos.org/RTOS_Task_Notification_As_Counting_Semaphore.html
 
I've created a timer with an alarm interval using Harmony (including the assembly wrapper) with INT_PRIORITY_LEVEL3.  The interrupt fires as expected.
 

void IntHandlerDrvTmrInstance0(void)
{
    DRV_TMR_Tasks(sysObj.drvTmr0);
    
    BaseType_t xHigherPriorityTaskWoken = pdFALSE; /* Initialised to pdFALSE. */
    configASSERT( xStreaming_TimerHandlerTask != NULL );
    vTaskNotifyGiveFromISR( xStreaming_TimerHandlerTask, &xHigherPriorityTaskWoken );
    portEND_SWITCHING_ISR(xHigherPriorityTaskWoken); 
}

 
I can step through and view that the task gets unblocked and set to the ready state (after vTaskNotifyGiveFromISR executes).
 
However, the RTOS never switches into the xStreaming_TimerHandlerTask (which has a higher priority at 2, than the other tasks which are priority 1).  It keeps executing the lower priority tasks like nothing ever happened!  Ultimately, the task gets blocked by something and unblocked again during the ISR but never executes.
 
I can't tell if the problem has to do with interrupt priorities, task priorities, or maybe the assembly wrapper Harmony adds to ISRs?
 
For reference:
 

#define configKERNEL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY 1
configMAX_SYSCALL_INTERRUPT_PRIORITY 3

 
If anyone has any insight, I'd greatly appreciate it!

This is the asm code that was generated by Harmony3 in a FreeRTOS project, if that helps at all.
 
 

.extern UART2_RX_IntHandler
.section .vector_146,code, keep
 .equ __vector_dispatch_146, IntVectorUART2_RX_IntHandler
 .global __vector_dispatch_146
 .set nomicromips
 .set noreorder
 .set nomips16
 .set noat
 .ent IntVectorUART2_RX_IntHandler
IntVectorUART2_RX_IntHandler:
 portSAVE_CONTEXT
 la s6, UART2_RX_IntHandler
 jalr s6
 nop
 portRESTORE_CONTEXT
 .end IntVectorUART2_RX_IntHandler

 
Do other tasks with a higher priority run at all?

Actually, it looks like the debugger was lying to me.  I set a breakpoint (inside my ISR triggered task) that never got hit.  However, I added code to toggle an LED in the task and it works just fine.  Apparently, the breakpoint was not able to be resolved - even though the debugger showed solid red!