Re: [Xenomai-help] Sleep in rtdm driver

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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robert165 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
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> ÔÚ2010-03-18 00:19:47£¬"Philippe Gerum" <rpm@xenomai.org> дµÀ£º
>> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 22:07 +0800, robert165 wrote:
>>> Hi everyone!
>>>
>>> I'm writing a gpio driver in RTDM. I start it with the demo "Hard real
>>> time RTDM driver skeleton v1.1" of Jan Kiszka.
>>> If I used rtdm_task_sleep in rt_ioctrl  function,  it return that
>>> "Xenomai: assertion failed at kernel/xenomai/skins/rtdm/drvlib.c:372
>>> (!xnpod_unblockable_p())"  when running.
>>> It is said that rtdm_task_sleep can be called from Kernel-based task.
>>> Why I can't use it in my driver. Optionally, I can do this in
>>> user-space by periodic calling the driver, but it seems slower than in
>>> kernel space.
>> I'm puzzled: what does "slower" mean, regarding what operation?
> I am sorry, I means is it more effective if doing things in kernel space.  I think when periodic calling driver in user-space, it may spent more in context switching.

If you really depend on this minor difference, you are already designing
with a too small safety margin.

Have you measured the differences and compared them to your requirements?

Jan

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