Thx for the answer bu I don't understand the first sentence (because of my
bad english :))

What dou you mean with "Xenomai 3 prefers the RT patch of a RTDM callback
over the NRT if the caller is
a real-time task." ? What is a "patch of RTDM callback" ??

Le ven. 20 sept. 2019 à 15:45, Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On 20.09.19 15:34, Pierre FICHEUX via Xenomai wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been using RTDM _rt / _nrt functions for a long time with Xenomai
> > 2.6.x but it seems not to work (the same way ?) with Xenomai 3 (tested
> with
> > several versions up to 3.0.8). Actually the _nrt driver function is never
> > called (_rt is always called...). I wrote a simple example for Xeno 2 and
> > Xeno 3 available here:
> >
> > https://github.com/pficheux/xenomai_examples.git
> >
> > Here is the test on Raspberry Pi 3 (Xeno 3).
> >
> > # insmod rtdm_test.ko
> >
> > # ./xenomai_test
> >
> > [   47.661245] RTDM open:.
> >
> > [   47.667473] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [   47.672674] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [   48.667479] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [   48.678078] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [   49.667463] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [   49.683076] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [   50.667463] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [   50.687868] ioctl: RT
> >
> >
> > Of course it works fine with Xenomai 2 (on Pi B+) :
> >
> > # insmod rtdm_test.ko
> >
> > # ./xenomai_test
> >
> > [  753.614275] RTDM open
> >
> > [  753.632852] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [  753.636779] ioctl: NRT
> >
> > [  755.632839] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [  755.640252] ioctl: NRT
> >
> > [  756.632841] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [  757.632838] ioctl: RT
> >
> > [  757.643779] ioctl: NRT
> >
> > [  758.632836] ioctl: RT
> >
> > Thx by advance for your help
> >
>
> Xenomai 3 prefers the RT patch of a RTDM callback over the NRT if the
> caller is
> a real-time task. Xenomai 2 had an adaptive behavior where the current
> state of
> the caller defined that. This is a problem I also ran into before and
> proposed
> to revert to the old behavior (in fact, we do that in one internal
> deployment).
> But there is also the point that preferring RT over NRT makes sense for
> many
> scenarios.
>
> Discussing this with Philippe back then on the list (I do not find the
> reference
> ATM), we came to the conclusion that the better answer is to allow the
> driver to
> declare which particular behavior a callback should have - in contrast to
> doing
> that in one way or the other at the top level, ie. on syscall entry of
> ioctl
> etc. But I do not have a design for that yet, and I didn't want to delay
> the 3.1
> release further to finish that first.
>
> What we could consider for 3.1 is adding a compile-time configurable to
> re-enable the old behavior at syscall level when a user needs it. Then we
> could
> later on (3.2) push that properly to the driver level and remove the
> control again.
>
> Jan
>
> --
> Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE
> Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
>


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