Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi Michael,

By default the devAsynInt8Array callback does not buffer the array it receives, it copies it directly into the waveform record.  If your driver callbacks are happening faster than the record processing and Channel Access transfer to the client then what you are seeing is expected.

devAsynInt8Array can optionally use a ring-buffer to buffer the arrays passed to the callback function.  This should eliminate the problem you are seeing.  The ring buffer is disabled by default, but you can enable it by adding this line to your waveform record database file:

info(asyn:FIFO, "20")

where 20 is the maximum number of blocks you want to be able to buffer.

This is documented here (search for "Buffering of Driver Callbacks"):
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asyn/R4-31/asynDriver.html

How large is the data set you are trying to transfer?  Are you breaking it into blocks because of its size, or is your source actually delivering it in sub-blocks?

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Huth
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 1:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Channel Access client sees only partial update.

Hello,

I'am quite new to Epics and ran into an issue where I could use a hint
how to solve it:

I have an IOC driver based on the area detector driver that should be
extended for the transfer of a large data set from another source.

So I setup a Record for it like this:
record(waveform, "$(P)$(R)Data")
{
    field(PINI, "0")
    field(DTYP, "asynInt8ArrayIn")
    field(INP,  "@asyn($(PORT),$(ADDR),$(TIMEOUT))DATA")
    field(FTVL, "CHAR")
    field(NELM, "$(SIZE_DATA_BLOCK)")
    field(SCAN, "I/O Intr")
}

In the main thread of the IOC I split the large data set into smaller
blocks and have a loop that calls

doCallbacksInt8Array(blockPtr , block_size, Data, 0);

for each block to transfer the blocks to the data base.

In a second process a channel access client is subscribed with
ca_create_subscription to 'DATA'.

The issue is that the client receives only the last block from each loop
of the IOC driver thread.

I guess I have to wait somehow until the database processing has
finished after each block?!?

Best regards,
Michael Huth

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