Am 06.01.2010 12:35, schrieb Michael Schnell: > Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >> Did you look at the xenomai website? > > Seemingly you need to do your own device drivers and not use any Linux > system calls in your realtime process, that seems to run Linux in a kind > of virtualization. > > So FPC programming for realtime would require to prevent FPC from > creating Linux system calls. Thus you need a modified RTL (e.g. for > memory management).
You can call normal linux system calls without problems, that is one of the
big features of xenomai, but of course you have to take care, it can have an
impact on the realtime performance.
I try to explain the concept:
(There are much better documents on xenomai.org)
Tasks:
- Xenomai adds a realtime scheduler -> two cooperating schedulers.
- ALL Tasks are 'normal' linux tasks, realtime task are additionaly
registered in the realtime scheduler.
- A realtime Task can be scheduled by linux AND xenomai:
-> The Tasks can migrate while running from on to the other scheduler:
running on realtime scheduler -> "primary mode"
running on linux scheduler -> "secondary mode"
On a linux system call in primary mode, the task will migrate to secondary
mode automatically, with a blocking realtime call it will switch automatically
back to primary mode.
A lot of information is in the /proc-Interface, so you can see which task
migrated
how often to secondary mode. You can install a Trap-Handler too, which is
great
to find unwanted mode-switches.
IRQ's:
- Xenomai adds a Interrupt-Pipeline:
Interrupts are handled first by the xenomai scheduler and then passed to the
linux scheduler.
--> Linux interrupt handling is stalled while the realtime scheduler has
tasks
to run
Device Drivers are programmed in kernel-space using RTDM:
- RTDM is a realtime driver Interface supported by Xenomai and
RTAI (another linux realtime extension), maybe others.
There is also a RTDM interface for linux "native" realtime support using the
"preempt_rt-patch" probably in mainline "soon" ...
Future:
If you build your realtime apps as Xenomai userspace apps and make
RTDM-Drivers,
in about two years (just guessed), you will be able to run your realtime apps
with the Xenomai Duo-Kernel approach or on the linux native preempt_rt
realtime
support without changing anything in the application or driver code, just
recompile.
kisda
> -Michael
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