Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
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Re: Calcout using CA output link sometimes gets INVALID severity |
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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> |
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[email protected] |
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Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:09:52 -0500 |
Hi Lewis,
On 2012-10-11 J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> I've got a problem with a calcout record where, if I do a dbpf
> after iocInit on an ao record that has a forward link to the
> calcout record which in turn reads the ao record VAL field and
> writes a calculated value to an ai record using a Channel Access
> output link, sometimes the calcout record's SEVR field will be
> INVALID, and it does not write the calculated value to the ai
> record. This doesn't happen every time, but I can usually get
> it to happen within 5 tries. If I change the output link type
> from CA to PP, the problem goes away. Does anyone know what's
> wrong?
Is the dbpf that triggers this in the IOC's startup script, or being issued
manually? I'm guessing it's in the script, and I suspect what's happening
when you get the link alarm may be that the CA link hasn't finished connecting
up by the time the dbpf runs. CA link processing involves several different
threads even when the target PV is local, and if they haven't all had a chance
to finish before the calcout runs and uses the link then the link operation
will fail and put the record into a LINK/INVALID alarm state.
Try inserting an epicsThreadSleep(2) delay between iocInit and the dbpf
command, which should be enough time for your local CA links to connect up.
- Andrew
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