[ECOS] Re: Problems with "Scheduler lock not zero"

[Jürgen Lambrecht <J dot Lambrecht at televic dot com>]

Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> On 11/7/06, Jürgen Lambrecht <J.Lambrecht@televic.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Harboe,
>
>
> I'm wondering.... What would be the observable effects of the
> scheduler lock count not being zero if asserts weren't enabled?
>
> If the answer is that everything, except timeslicing, would work just
> fine, then I may have observed this on another project.
Now we're mainly testing release versions, so with asserts disabled..
> > I use again the MLQ scheduler instead of the bitmap and I have not seen
> > the error again.
>
>
> I'm using the MLQ scheduler and I do see the problem.
>
> Perhaps you still have the problem, only more rarely?
>
> It would not surprise me one bit if this problem is timing sensitive
> and pretty much anything could make it come or go.
>
> > From my ecos.ecc:
>
>
> cdl_component CYGSEM_KERNEL_SCHED_MLQUEUE {
>    # Flavor: bool
>    # No user value, uncomment the following line to provide one.
>    # user_value 1
>    # value_source default
>    # Default value: 1
>
>
> > My ecos is from feb 15 2006, so I have that patch from Nick.
>
>
> I fetched a fresh version today, and the problem exists with our HAL &
> CVS HEAD. Since this problem appears to be rare, I would suspect that
> a) either our HAL is somehow provoking a rare problem or b) our HAL is
> busted. We're using the opencores ethermac, otherwise it is basically
> an EB40a.
our HAL is based on the eb55; with a memory mapped ethermac, an i2c driver and an extended tftp server
> As an experiment I disabled timeslicing(since I'm using pthreads this
> requires a bit of hacking) and the problem persists.
Be carefull: to be able to use the bitmap scheduler, I had to make sure each priority was unique. And by default, both the main thread and the tftpd thread have priority 10 (CYGNUM_LIBC_MAIN_THREAD_PRIORITY and CYGPKG_NET_TFTPD_THREAD_PRIORITY). So I changed the priorities (to 8 and 9).
And now we use again the MLQ scheduler, but I kept the bitmap priorities of the main and tftpd thread. So I don't use timeslicing anymore. That's maybe the reason we don't have the problem anymore?
(Also the networking threads have default priorities, CYGPKG_NET_THREAD_PRIORITY and CYGPKG_NET_FAST_THREAD_PRIORITY (7 and 6).)
>

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