Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: > Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: >>>> On the one hand you make complicated code (which will be costly on low >>>> end hardware) to avoid shutting interrupts around a few assignments, but >>>> on the other hand you leave an architecture specific function pointer >>>> call where we want a fast behaviour on average (remember, we do all this >>>> to avoid a system call, which is only a few hundreds nanoseconds on your >>>> big iron x86), and where we have a generic fast replacement. Sometimes, >>>> I do not understand your logic. >>> But using the same argument, you could get rid of Linux vsyscall based >>> gettimeofday()... >> I do not see your point, the Linux code does not go a long way to make >> lockless code, it simply turns off interrupts around the gtod data >> update, which is really reasonable given the size of the masking >> section. The reading is lockless, the writing is not. >> > I was referring to the argument that system calls are so fast that > replacing gtod with a syscall-less version that uses function > pointer dereferencing instead does not make much of a difference.
That is not what I said. I compared the weight of a function pointer call with the one of four asignments with irqs off. And yes syscalls are fast on x86, do the measurements yourself, you may be surprised. > > Be it as it may, I need to check how far our budget can cover > the (much more comprehensive) modifications required for the > solution suggested by you. Let's see. I do not think there is that much work involved. The way I see it, we would need to replace our tsc reading function with one returning "ntp-corrected" tsc (that is, essentially a subset of the gettimeofday function you implemented, without conversion to ns and to CLOCK_REALTIME). Changes in this monotonic clock would trigger a recomputation of the next timer event date. Changes in monotonic to real-time conversion would trigger a call to xnpod_set_time. -- Gilles. _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core