From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44047837.7050500@domain.hid> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:20:07 +0100 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] resume/suspend periodic timing issue References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Steven Seeger Cc: "xenomai@xenomai.org" , Jan Kiszka Steven Seeger wrote: > Right, so if a thread is suspended voluntarily it should just ignore the > clock tick. Precisely not, it should be aware that time keeps advancing regardless of its own status, suspended or not. I think I will read more about RTOSs and see if I change my > mind, but for now I think that this is a poor design on our part. However, > xenomai is what I fought hard to use for these projects, so I guess I'll > have to stick with it. :) > > Steven > > On 2/28/06 7:29 AM, "Philippe Gerum" wrote: > > >>Because set_periodic/wait_period are about defining a series of absolute dates >>forming a continuous timeline, the fact that a thread goes suspending instead >>of >>waiting for the next work cycle does not change the fact that the clock is >>still >>ticking. > > > -- Philippe.