Hi James,
On Friday 28 January 2011 10:16:45 you wrote:
>
> The PREEMPT_RT patch makes the kernel fully pre-emptive (leading to
> improved maximum latency) and adds support for priority inheritance
> mutexes. There are no user space API changes, the code to use
> _POSIX_THREAD_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING and _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT is
> already in libCom (if disabled by default). I'd like to use the
> epicsMessageQueue from a high priority thread but the send and receive
> functions may calloc an eventNode, and that might cause a page fault or
> block my thread on the malloc lock. I'd like to be able to pre-allocate
> the eventNodes because I know the maximum number of threads that may
> wait on the queue in advance.
Thanks; after looking at the code I see that could be tricky. However it
looks like if you could arrange for all your reading threads to wait for a
message at startup (with the queue empty) they will each call getEventNode()
and hence allocate the necessary number of eventNode objects. After they're
all waiting on the queue you would release them all by sending the requisite
number of messages through the queue from the initializing thread. I think
that should work with the existing API, but I've not actually tried it.
We probably should add a routine to the API to allow the eventFreeList to be
pre-allocated, but you probably want to be able to run on existing versions of
Base.
Eric — unless you stole the code from someone else you were the author of all
the *MessageQueue.* files, 'bzr log' does not lie...
- Andrew
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