Re: [Xenomai] rt_task_sleep_until() miss release point?

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

On 11/06/2014 05:46 PM, ZIV-Alberto Ozalla Cantabrana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> These are the simplest examples:
> There are no MSW for Test_Task.
> The goal is to increment counter_ms each millisecond.
> 
> Given that:
> 1000000 nanoseconds = 24000 tsc.
> 1 tsc = 41 ns
> 
> RT_TASK Test_Task_descriptor;
> volatile unsigned long long counter_ms;
> 
> void Test_Task(void *arg)
> {
>     rt_task_set_mode(0, 0, NULL);
> 
>     RTIME t1, t2;
>     counter_ms = 0;
> 
>     while(1) {
>         t1 = rt_timer_tsc();
>         t2 = t1 + 24000;        // 24000 tsc = 1 ms
>         rt_task_sleep_until(rt_timer_tsc2ns(t2));

rt_task_sleep_until() refers to the real-time clock for applying delays,
i.e. adjusted with the wallclock offset. You can't pass it a value based
on the monotonic clock. This is why using timevals based on
rt_timer_read() works, but using rt_timer_tsc() doesn't.

-- 
Philippe.