The simplest way seems to be to create a higher-priority thread with the same
period and an offset in start time. The thread would check if the original
thread's computation is completed. It can also suspend or kill the task.
Michael.
Zaimin Zhong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After having made a thread execute periodically with
> pthread_make_periodic_np(3), how to find out whether the thread overruns the
> CPU within from this thread.
>
> To state my question more clearly: In my program, a RTL thread carries out
> periodic computation at fixed step. It is necessary for the thread to find
> out whether the last computation is finished when the given time slice
> elapses.
>
> If I correctly understand, RTL thread will complete its computation even if
> the give time slice is too small to finish the job and give out logically
> correct but NON-REAL-TIME results. Am I correct?
>
> James
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