Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello,

 

We have added a scan rate of “.01 second” to our scan menu to have records processed at 100 Hz (10 ms), but we are getting the “Scan rate is not achievable” message.  Is this due to the clock rate not being able to match 10ms? What does the system set the scan rate to when it receives a message like this?  We are running on Linux Oracle 8 OS.  I would think a 10ms rate would be achievable.

 

Thank you,

 

Patrick Barrett

Stage Controller Software Engineer

The Boeing Company

 

 

Hi! Apologies for the double email, Patrick, I had initially responded only to you instead of to the list.

What version of EPICS are you using? I'm looking at EPICS 7, and from what I can see, it uses the following heuristic:

        number = ppsl->period / quantum;
        if ((ppsl->period < 2 * quantum) ||
            (number / floor(number) > 1.1)) {
            errlogPrintf("initPeriodic: Scan rate '%s' is not achievable.\n",
                choice);
        }

where quantum is determined by epicsThreadSleepQuantum().

On Linux, that function uses essentially '1.0 / sysconf ( _SC_CLK_TCK )'. The sysconf value is usually 100 (Hz), and it would explain why EPICS thinks it won't achieve the desired scan rate. I don't think a modern kernel will actually be limited by its tick rate, so I don't know how accurate that heuristic is.

Either way, the 'period' value isn't touched after this verification, so I think the IOC will still attempt to use it. You could try running a simple counter in your SCAN and checking with camonitor if the 100Hz rate is actually achieved.

I think scanppl() might have trouble detecting overruns with a period of 0.01, though:

        if (period > 0.0 &&
            (fabs(period - ppsl->period) > 0.05))
            continue;

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