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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] xenomai scheduler's ticks period
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Matthieu wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:27:42 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix
> <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org> wrote:
>> Matthieu wrote:
>>> Let me know if I've done something wrong ...
>> rt_timer_read belongs to the native skin, not to the vxworks skin !
>>
>> --
>>                                                   Gilles.
> 
> Ok, but I don't really see why does mixing vxworks task with a xenomai
> instruction that not depends on vxworks scheduler is a problem. if I just
> get time, does the task switch to xenomai scheduler ?. However, if it's
> really a problem, what can I use to get a pricise time, as I can't use
> getTick anymore. Philippe suggested xntbase time base services ?

You can use rt_timer_read(), but you should not assume that this returns
a nanoseconds count, this depends on the timing configuration of the
native skin.

-- 
                                                 Gilles.