On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 19:59 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > > Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> Philippe Gerum wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 08:42 +0200, M. Koehrer wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi everybody, > >>>> > >>>> I want to know why the --enable-smp option for "configure" of Xenomai is > >>>> used when there > >>>> is already the corresponding option selected with the kernel > >>>> configuration? > >>> --enable-smp is only used when you want the user-space side to _require_ > >>> SMP support to be present into the running kernel; i.e. for some (weird) > >>> reason, your application really needs this. Xenomai libraries don't care > >>> whether SMP support is enabled or not, they are not sensitive to that > >>> issue (see the "weak" status of this option in README.INSTALL) > >> > >> Switchtest bases some compile-time decisions on CONFIG_SMP. Nitpicking, > >> OK, but I wonder if this is required. Gilles? > > > > If you do not enable the smp option, switchtest will only use one cpu. > > The reason why I made this is that, on some UP machine, (probably arm, > > but I do no longer remember) sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) did not work. > > Welcome to embedded hell :-/. What was the effect precisely? Can we > detect this during runtime? The point is I see people trying this test > on SMP without providing the right switch to configure. Would be a pity > IMHO. > > At this chance: I also noticed problems with our sched_setscheduler > detection and bfin's uClibc. Compilations works, linking fails - they > provide headers, but lack implementations. Patch suggestion will follow. > > And my pthread_spin_lock detection got nicely vaporised on bfin once > again. I'm considering to switch back to the original configure-based > detection.
Notice that you have no atomic ops available on Blackfin CPUs, and to emulate them, you would have to mask interrupts, which you can't do in user-space (privileged instruction). So you will always end up issuing a syscall under the hood (bfin_spinlock), that does some kind of spinlock emulation from kernel space. Next kernel releases might improve things by allowing to jump to atomic emulation routines directly from user-space, but this is not yet available AFAIK. IOW, don't expect performance improvements from user-space locking, yet. > > Enough of the moaning. > Still, this is quite a fun architecture to work with. > Jan > -- Philippe. _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
