Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Thanks very much Jeff, sounds like it's doing exactly what I needed. Ho hum, means my very rare blips (not exactly crashes, but looks like callback in bad context) on shutdown are something else...
On a related question: can you advise precisely when I need to call ca_flush_io()? I've taken to scattering them through my code recently, and I think it's time to get rid of the surplus ones! I'm currently call ca_flush_io() after:
1. ca_create_channel
2. ca_clear_subscription
3. ca_create_subscription
4. ca_array_get_callback
5. ca_array_put_callback
6. ca_array_put
7. ca_context_destroy
I'm guessing that (7) is completely bogus (and even possibly dangerous) and from what you've just said (2) is pointless.
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From: Hill, Jeffrey O [[email protected]]
Sent: 15 March 2012 16:18
To: Abbott, Michael (DLSLtd,RAL,DIA); [email protected]
Subject: RE: Synchronising CA shut down
> For instance, if I have called:
>
> ca_create_subscription( ... my_callback ..., &event_id)
>
> and then subsequently call ca_clear_subscription(event_id) is there any
> guarantee that I can rely on that my_callback() cannot be in progress when
> ca_clear_subscription() returns?
Internally, there is a callback lock and also a resource identifier for each subscription. The bottom line is that if you destroy the subscription the destroying thread will block until any callbacks in progress complete, purge the subscription from the resource table in the client, and send a message to the server canceling the subscription. If any subscription update messages are in flight they will be discarded because their resource id will be discovered to be no-longer installed in the client libraries resource table.
> A quick glance at the code (in ca) seems to show that although there is an
> epicsGuard taken during ca_clear_subscription, as far as I can tell the
> guard is dropped during callbacks ... for understandable reasons.
There are two global synchronization locks in the client library. A general mutual exclusion lock is held only briefly to enforce data structure consistency between threads. A callback control lock is held for much longer while a sequence of response messages are dispatched. It is used to enforce that only one callback at a time runs, to enforce non-preemptive callback mode, and to enforce that a callback isn't in progress at certain critical junctures.
Jeff
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> When running libca with asynchronous and preemptive callbacks, ie, I've
> called
>
> ca_context_create(1)
>
> is there any guarantee about when subscription callbacks can occur?
>
> For instance, if I have called:
>
> ca_create_subscription( ... my_callback ..., &event_id)
>
> and then subsequently call ca_clear_subscription(event_id) is there any
> guarantee that I can rely on that my_callback() cannot be in progress when
> ca_clear_subscription() returns?
>
> The problem is, of course, one of resource management -- at what point is
> it safe to delete the resources associated with the channel and needed by
> my_callback()?
>
>
> In an ideal world I would hope that ca_clear_subscription() would block
> until any outstanding callbacks (potentially running in other cores) had
> completed together with providing a guarantee that there would be no
> further callbacks ... but I'm guessing such hopes are unfounded?
>
> Of course, the same question applies to calling ca_clear_channel() when
> there are outstanding put or get callbacks that might complete at a
> peculiarly inconvenient moment.
>
> In the absence of such guarantees what can I do to reduce or eliminate
> potential race conditions when closing channels and subscriptions? At the
> moment the only remedy I can think of is to wait a moment, not exactly the
> stuff of guarantees.
>
>
> A quick glance at the code (in ca) seems to show that although there is an
> epicsGuard taken during ca_clear_subscription, as far as I can tell the
> guard is dropped during callbacks ... for understandable reasons.
>
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