Hello,

Your code works fine on my machine. Is it only the Ada program that
behaves incorrectly? Perhaps you could come up with a small example that
I could run?

Michael.

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> I installed RTLinux 3.0 on Kernel 2.2.18 on a dual processor PIII 500MHz. All I
> need is a 60Hz signal to a Linux app. I originally tried modifying the Kernel Hz
> from 100 to 960 but for some reason there were a tremendous amount of jitter
> whereas 100Hz was fairly stable.
> 
> For my second attempt, I installed RTL 3.0 and cobbled up a pair of programs
> from the examples. In my test program everything is fine and the jitter is quite
> low no matter what I try to peturb it. When I try to use the read in a large Ada
> program it works for a while and then I start getting zero bytes back from the
> FIFO sometimes instead of blocking until the FIFO is non empty. I put in code to
> read the FIFO again if the read returns zero bytes but instead of blocking on
> the FIFO my CPU utilization is 100%.
> 
> I like having the FIFO return a structure which is the tic count and the elapsed
> time from the RDTSC instruction because it allows me to detect frame overruns
> but I could use a semaphore if anyone has a reliable example.
> 
> Jon Clifton
> 
>     
> 

> all: rtlinux_mod.o linux_app
> 
> include ../../rtl.mk
> 
> linux_app: linux_app.c
>       $(CC) ${USER_CFLAGS} ${INCLUDE} -Wall -O2 -o linux_app linux_app.c
> 
> test: all
>       @ -/sbin/rmmod rtlinux_mod
>       (cd ../../; scripts/rmrtl)
>       (cd ../../; scripts/insrtl)
>       @/sbin/insmod -v rtlinux_mod.o
>       @./linux_app
> 
> stop_test:
>       @ -/sbin/rmmod rtlinux_mod
>       -/sbin/rmmod rtl_fifo
>       -/sbin/rmmod rtl_sched
>       -/sbin/rmmod rtl_time
> 
> clean:
>       rm -f *.o linux_app
> 
> include $(RTL_DIR)/Rules.make
> 

> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> 
> #define NANOSECONDS_PER_TICK (double)((double)1000.00/(double)500.00) 
> int main(){
>       int fd,count;
>       int tics=0;
>       struct { int count; unsigned int d;}D;
>       double f;
>       double sum=0.0;
>       if( (fd = open("/dev/rtf0",O_RDONLY) ) < 0 ){
>               perror("Can't open fifo");
>               exit(-1);
>       }
>       read(fd,&D,sizeof(D));
>       count = D.count;
>       while( (read(fd,&D,sizeof(D))  == sizeof(D))){
>               f = (double)D.d;
>               f = ((f) * NANOSECONDS_PER_TICK)/1000;
>                 sum+=f;
>               tics++;
>               printf("Delay was %f microseconds, avg=%f, D={%8d, %08x}\n",
>                       f,sum/(double)tics, D.count, D.d);
>               if(count && (count+1 != D.count))
>                       printf("Dropped a packet at %d ",count);
>               count = D.count;
>       }
>       return 0;
> }
> 

> #include <rtl.h>
> #include <rtl_fifo.h>
> #include <time.h>
> #include <rtl_sched.h>
> #include <rtl_sync.h>
> #include <pthread.h>
> #include <posix/unistd.h>
> 
> #define FRAME_INTERVAL 16695149LL /* fudged 16.67ms */
> #define FIFO_SIZE 4000
> 
> pthread_t thread;
> int fd;
> int stop = 0;
> static void copy_device_data(unsigned int *);
> 
> void *start_routine(void *arg){
>       struct sched_param p;
>       struct {int i; unsigned int d; }D = {0,0};
> 
>       p.sched_priority=1;
>       pthread_setschedparam (pthread_self(), SCHED_FIFO, &p);
>       pthread_make_periodic_np (pthread_self(), 
>               clock_gethrtime(CLOCK_RTL_SCHED),
>               FRAME_INTERVAL);
>       copy_device_data(&D.d);
> 
>       while(!stop){
>               pthread_wait_np();
>               copy_device_data(&D.d);
>               D.i++;
>               /* ignore write fails, we just drop the data */
>               write(fd,&D,sizeof(D));
>       }
>       return 0;
> }
> int init_module(void){
>       
>       rtf_destroy(0);
>         rtf_create(0,FIFO_SIZE);
>       if ( (fd = open("/dev/rtf0",O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK )) < 0)
>       {
>               rtl_printf("rtlinux_mod cannot open fifo\n");
>               rtl_printf("Error number is %d\n",errno);
>               return -1;
>       }
>       return( pthread_create(&thread,NULL,start_routine,0));
> }
> 
> void cleanup_module(void){ 
>       stop = 1;
>       close(fd);
>       rtf_destroy(0);
>       pthread_delete_np(thread);
>       return;
> }
> 
> static void copy_device_data(unsigned int *x)
> {
>       static int last=0;
>       int d;
>       rdtscl(d);
>       *x= (d - last);
>       last = d;
>       return;
> }
> 
> 

> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> 
> #define CPU_MHz 500.00L
> #define NANOSECONDS_PER_TICK (double)((double)1000.00/(double)CPU_MHz) 
> //#define DEBUG
> 
> int rtl_wait(void) {
>           //(int * tics, double * delta_t){
>       static int firstpass=1;
>       static int fd;
>       static int rtl_count;
>       static int n=0;
>       static int nbytes=0;
>       static double sum;
>       struct { int rtl_count; unsigned int d;}D;
>       double f;
> 
>       if (firstpass) {
>               if( (fd = open("/dev/rtf0",O_RDONLY) ) < 0 ){
>                       perror("Can't open fifo");
>                       exit(-1);
>               }
>               firstpass=0;
>               n=0;
>               sum=0.0;
>               read(fd,&D,sizeof(D));
>               rtl_count = D.rtl_count;
>       }
>       while (0 ==(nbytes= read(fd,&D,sizeof(D))));
>       if (sizeof(D) != nbytes) {
>               fprintf(stderr,"read %d ",nbytes);
>               perror("FIFO failed to block");
>       }
> #ifdef DEBUG
>       f = (double)D.d;
>       f = ((f) * NANOSECONDS_PER_TICK)/1000.0;
>       n++;
>       sum+=f;
>       printf("Delay was %f microseconds, avg=%f, sec=%5d f=%2d, D={ %8d, %08x}\n",
>               f,sum/(double)n, n/60, 1+(n%60), D.rtl_count, D.d);
> #endif
>       if(rtl_count && (rtl_count+1 != D.rtl_count))
>               printf("Dropped %x tics at %x\n",
>                       D.rtl_count-(rtl_count-1), rtl_count);
>       rtl_count = D.rtl_count;
> //    *tics=rtl_count;
> //    *delta_t=f;
> //    return;
>       return rtl_count;
> }

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