Marvin,
The ISR may only take 50 ms to execute but how long does the computational thread
take. The computational thread running in an rt-kernel module will have higher
priority than linux and linux user space. Therefore, if your computational thread
combined with the ISR consume enough time linux will not get a chance to run. If the
processing that you are doing in the computational thread is not time critical then
you could have it run in user space.
If in fact the 50 ms includes the computational thread execution as well then I would
suggest to you that maybe you are running past the end of an array and clobbering
memory that linux is using thus freezing the operating system. However, this does not
fit your point that slowing down the interrupts prevents the freezing of the operating
system.
I believe user space cpu monitors do not recognize that rt-linux exists. Therefore,
they only report the cpu usage of linux and its processes. The cpu usage of the
rt-linux processes will not be visible.
I hope this helps,
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin Germain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 6:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [rtl] keyboard freeze with one percent CPU load
Hello, all.
My mouse and keyboard freeze when I call pthread_wakeup_np() from within
a hard interrupt service routine. I am using RTLinux 3.0 with kernel
2.2.18 on a 1.5 GHz P4. My project uses two RTLinux modules: The first
services hardware interrupts and transfers data from a DAQ board into an
mbuff. The first module then wakes up a thread containied in a second
module which performs computations on the data. Here is the basic
format:
**************
First module: *
**************
extern pthread_t myThread;
unsigned int my_isr(unsigned int irq, struct pt_regs *regs) {
/* perform hardware-related things here */
rtl_hard_enable_irq(irq);
pthread_wakeup_np(myThread);
}
***************
Second module: *
***************
pthread_t myThread;
void *myEntryPoint(void *p) {
while(1) {
pthread_suspend_np(myThread);
/* perform calculations here */
}
}
When the interrupt rate is once every five milli-seconds, the mouse and
keyboard freeze within two to three seconds. If I slow down the
hardware so that the interrupts come only once every six milli-seconds,
everything seems fine. I timed the execution of the ISR at 50
micro-seconds. So the CPU loading is only one percent. The freezes
occur even if I comment out everything in the while-loop except for the
pthread_suspend_np(). The freezes do NOT occur if I comment out the
pthread_wakeup_np() from the ISR. Any ideas?
Marvin
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