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[Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>]

>From owner-rtl Tue May 29 16:05:30 2001
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From: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
To: rtl@fsmlabs.com
Subject: Re: [rtl] Weird scheduling problem
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In-Reply-To: <GBEBJEDLOFFHLCHJLHDLOEPECDAA.jonas.persson@comsys.se>; from jonas.persson@comsys.se on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:27:13PM +0200
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What version of RTLinux?
Can you describe the code in more detail?
Try with a simpler design

	A:
	while(1){
	         sem_wait(s);
		 do something 
		 }


       B:
                while(1){
		   do something
		   sem_post(s);
		   clock_nanosleep(CLOCK_REALTIME, ns2ts(10000));
		   }


On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:27:13PM +0200, Jonas Persson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a strange scheduling problem. Let's say I have two (RTL-) threads, A and B, which interact in the following way - B, which has higher priority, calls sem_wait on a semaphore. Whenever A has one piece of data ready for B, A calls sem_post on the same semaphore. 
> 
> For whatever reason, when running this example A runs one cycle and so does B. But when I insert another module, being another RTLinux program, whenever usleep() is called from there, both A and B runs another cycle! 
> 
> Both A and B are periodic processes with the same periodicity, but only A make calls to pthread_make_periodic_np and pthread_wait_np since B waits for the semaphore and has higher priority than A.
> 
> Any thought appreciated!
> 
> Regards,
> Jonas
> 
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