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Subject: Re: asynDriver / epicsTimer bug
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]>
Cc: TECHTALK <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:25:08 -0500
On May 30, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Dirk Zimoch wrote:

Hi Marty, Jeff et al

When asynOctet->read() (or at least readRaw() of the TCP port driver) is called on vxWorks with pasynUser->timeout < 1/ sysClkRateGet() [normally about 16 ms], the read call hangs and does never time out.

I think it is actually a problem with epicsTimer, which never expires for timeouts < 1/sysClkRateGet(). But I have not tested this.

I think, a timer should wait at least the specified amount of time, thus always round up to at least one tick.

Yes, that is what they are supposed to do. On vxWorks the code in question is:

epicsEventWaitStatus epicsEventWaitWithTimeout(
    epicsEventId id, double timeOut)
{
    int status;
    int ticks;

    if(timeOut<=0.0) {
        ticks = 0;
    } else {
        ticks = timeOut*sysClkRateGet();
        if(ticks<=0) ticks = 1;
    }
    status = semTake((SEM_ID)id,ticks);
    if(status==OK) return(epicsEventWaitOK);
    if(errno==S_objLib_OBJ_TIMEOUT) return(epicsEventWaitTimeout);
    return(epicsEventWaitError);
}


This looks correct to me.

BTW -- the latest versions of ASYN have done away with the EPICS timers in the TCP and serial drives.


--
Eric Norum <[email protected]>
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
(630) 252-4793


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