As we discussed in our call, we can both play around with graphviz and see
if a prettier diagram can be constructed that is perhaps clearer, possibly
with two separate FSMs.

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Christophe Milard <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 9 May 2016 at 16:28, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Christophe Milard <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am a bit confused by this diagram: It feels to me that timers and
>>> timeout have separate lives (even , if of course some dependency exist).
>>> From this diagram, it feels like these 2 separate objects (timers and
>>> time out events) share states...? do they?
>>>
>>
>> Actually they do, which is what this diagram is trying to express. When a
>> timer is set one of the arguments is the timeout event that should be
>> associated with it, so it is an error to attempt to free that event while
>> it is associated with a set timer (results are undefined if you do).
>> Timers are somewhat unique in this respect.
>>
>
> Sorry, Bill I still don't get it: Aren't you saying here that these are 2
> separate FSMs, but that these 2 separate FSMs are actually
> actionned/"triggered" by (partly) the same events? There is nothing wrong
> with that... Then they should be represented as 2 separated FSM with the
> same event names on the transitions triggered by the same events...
>  Or I am very confused...
>
> Christophe.
>
>>
>>
>>> In my head, and from the understanding I had, it feels that the to 4 top
>>> states are for timers, whereas time-out events have only 2 states:
>>> Unallocated or allocated.
>>> It feels you are doing 1 FSM out of two. Maybe , it should be two FSM
>>> (keeping the same transition names to show the dependancy.)
>>>
>>> And I guess there is a typo at "odp_timeout_freee().
>>>
>>
>> Thanks.  I'll fix that in the next version.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Christophe
>>>
>>> On 7 May 2016 at 18:15, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Bill Fischofer <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>>  doc/images/.gitignore       |  1 +
>>>>  doc/images/timer_fsm.gv     | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  doc/users-guide/Makefile.am |  1 +
>>>>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
>>>>  create mode 100644 doc/images/timer_fsm.gv
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/doc/images/.gitignore b/doc/images/.gitignore
>>>> index a19aa75..72cf7ec 100644
>>>> --- a/doc/images/.gitignore
>>>> +++ b/doc/images/.gitignore
>>>> @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
>>>>  resource_management.svg
>>>>  pktio_fsm.svg
>>>> +timer_fsm.svg
>>>> diff --git a/doc/images/timer_fsm.gv b/doc/images/timer_fsm.gv
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 0000000..f8cb21a
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/doc/images/timer_fsm.gv
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
>>>> +digraph timer_state_machine {
>>>> +       rankdir=LR;
>>>> +       size="12,20";
>>>> +       node [fontsize=28];
>>>> +       edge [fontsize=28];
>>>> +       node [shape=doublecircle]; Timer_Unalloc
>>>> +                                  Timeout_Unalloc
>>>> +                                  Timeout_Delivered;
>>>> +        node [shape=rectangle]; Timeout_Queued;
>>>> +       node [shape=circle];
>>>> +       Timer_Unalloc -> Timer_Alloc [label="odp_timer_alloc()"];
>>>> +       Timer_Alloc -> Timer_Unalloc [label="odp_timer_free()"];
>>>> +       Timer_Alloc -> Timer_Set [label="odp_timer_set_abs()"];
>>>> +       Timer_Alloc -> Timer_Set [label="odp_timer_set_rel()"];
>>>> +       Timer_Set -> Timer_Alloc [label="odp_timer_cancel()"];
>>>> +       Timer_Set -> Timeout_Alloc
>>>> +                       [label="odp_timer_cancel()" constraint=false];
>>>> +       Timer_Set -> Timeout_Queued [label="=>odp_queue_enq()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Queued -> Timeout_Delivered [label="odp_schedule()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Unalloc -> Timeout_Alloc
>>>> +                        [label="odp_timeout_alloc()" constraint=false];
>>>> +       Timeout_Alloc -> Timeout_Unalloc
>>>> +                        [label="odp_timeout_free()" constraint=false];
>>>> +       Timeout_Alloc -> Timer_Set
>>>> +                        [label="odp_timer_set_abs()" constraint=false];
>>>> +       Timeout_Alloc -> Timer_Set
>>>> +                        [label="odp_timer_set_rel()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Delivered -> Timer_Unalloc [label="odp_timer_free()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Delivered -> Timer_Set [label="odp_timer_set_abs()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Delivered -> Timer_Set [label="odp_timer_set_rel()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Delivered -> Timeout_Delivered
>>>> +                         [label="odp_timeout_from_event()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Delivered -> Timeout_Delivered
>>>> +                         [label="odp_timeout_timer()"];
>>>> +       Timeout_Delivered -> Timeout_Unalloc
>>>> +                         [label="odp_event_free() /
>>>> odp_timeout_freee()"
>>>> +                         constraint=false];
>>>> +}
>>>> diff --git a/doc/users-guide/Makefile.am b/doc/users-guide/Makefile.am
>>>> index 74caa96..6bb0131 100644
>>>> --- a/doc/users-guide/Makefile.am
>>>> +++ b/doc/users-guide/Makefile.am
>>>> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ IMAGES = $(top_srcdir)/doc/images/overview.svg \
>>>>          $(top_srcdir)/doc/images/release_git.svg \
>>>>          $(top_srcdir)/doc/images/segment.svg \
>>>>          $(top_srcdir)/doc/images/simple_release_git.svg \
>>>> +        $(top_srcdir)/doc/images/timer_fsm.svg \
>>>>          $(top_srcdir)/doc/images/tm_hierarchy.svg \
>>>>          $(top_srcdir)/doc/images/tm_node.svg
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 2.5.0
>>>>
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