On 2013-12-12 21:13, Klemen Dovrtel wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am studding rtnet documentation and i am not sure of Rtnet slave <phasing> > and <period> setup. > > How does the slave knows it is his turn to send data? I assume all the > informations should be in the Synchronisation Frame -> Cycle Number field > which is incremented by one in every new cycle, and it is reset to zero on > overflow. What i am not sure is when does it overflow? I would suspect that > the overflow number is set in a way that the (overflow_number+1) can be > divided by all period numbers in the tdma.conf file without a reminder. > Otherwise the slave slots can not be evenly distributed. I could not find any > information about this. >
Good point! This is not taken into account by the implementation. So if the configuration contains non-power-of-two periods, it will face skipped slots on wrap-around of the 32-bit cycle counter. Jan
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