Re: [Xenomai-help] resume/suspend periodic timing issue

[Steven Seeger <steve@domain.hid>]

Well, the thread suspends when it's done playing, and when new data arrives
in the buffer via /dev/dsp, the thread is then resumed. I just wonder what
the point of suspend/resume is, then, if we're supposed to just use
rt_task_set_periodic to create a new timeline. Right now I am doing this,
and then suspending, and then before I resume, I make another timeline.

Steven

On 2/28/06 7:43 AM, "Jan Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@domain.hid> wrote:
> 
> Simply stop the related timer when the job is done
> (rt_task_setperiodic...). What should be the reason to keep *this*
> particular timeline for the next output job? Does the DAC has its own
> timer? Then you would have to synchronise on that one anyway. Otherwise,
> you should better restart the periodic output as soon as the next job
> arrives - with a new timeline. And it might be cleaner to use a real
> synchronisation mechanism for the wakeup, something like an event or a
> semaphore (suspend/resume is evil - mostly).
> 
> Jan
> 
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