Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Jeff Hill <[email protected]> · Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:52:06 -0700

> On vxWorks I am really afraid of allowing any user thread to be
> higher priority than the network threads. This caused 
> failures in the past.

We have a new vxWorks IP kernel now so it is conceivable that this issue
has been resolved, but even after our regression tests pass I'm not sure
that we know for certain that the problem does not still exist. So the
challenge would be to find a way to test the new configuration on some
heavy loaded, but otherwise non-critical IOCs.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Kraimer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:40 AM
> To: Eric Norum
> Cc: Jeff Hill; 'Till Straumann'; 'Johnson, Andrew N.'
> Subject: Re: base max thread priority
> 
> Eric Norum wrote:
> 
> > Maybe something like:
> > static const unsigned epicsThreadPriorityIocsh = 91;
> > static const unsigned epicsThreadPriorityNetworkDaemons = 95;
> > static const unsigned epicsThreadPriorityBaseMax = 91;
> <<<Still
> > waiting for you folks to come up with a better name... >>>
> >
> > Then EPICS applications could still have priorities higher
> than the
> > shell but lower than the network daemons, or even priorities
> higher than
> > the network daemons as necessary.
> >
> 
> Why not just have
> 
> 
> static const unsigned epicsThreadPriorityBaseMax = 91;
> 
> Then iocsh could just use this as it's priority.
> 
> epicsThreadPriorityNetworkDaemons doesn't sound like an epics
> base issue. It is
> an OS epecific issue, e.g. it is an RTEMS issue. If we add it
> it will, at least
> for now, be used only for RTEMS. Does it even make sense for
> systems where
> iocCore is running in user space? Thus at leats for now it will
> only apply to RTEMS.
> 
> On vxWorks I am really afraid of allowing any user thread to be
> higher priority
> than the network threads. This caused failures in the past.
> 
> 
> Marty

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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