On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Jeff Weber wrote:
> > Gilles:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Jeff Weber wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Jeff,
> >>
> >> any news about the hostrt patch I sent you for x86_32? Does it work?
> >>
> >
> > Yes it works.  However my call to clock_gettime(CLOCK_HOST_REALTIME)
> takes
> > too long (110 nsec on my CPU) for my ISR, so I will read the TSC instead,
> > and convert the TSC to host time in another thread.  Thanks for your help
> > though.
>
> Wow, it makes me wonder what kind of ISR with a multi-us latency can not
> handle a 110ns service. But I admit that the hostrt clock_gettime
> service is a bit heavy. I am afraid there is not much we can do. Could
> you get me disassembly of the kernel-space clock.o file, so that I
> verify that we do not end up using divisions? For instance
> clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is wrong, and uses the real division.
>

See attached.  Let me know if attachment gets stripped off along the way.

>
> >
> >
> >>> From testing, I found that if I enable PTHREAD_WARNSW for a pthread, I
> >> must
> >>> explicitly disable this mode before the thread terminates, or the
> thread
> >>> draws a signal 24 SIGXCPU.
> >> Yes, the problem is that we can put such migration if the thread
> >> function returns, but it will not work in case pthread_exit is called.
> >>
> >
> > I'm interested if there is a way to automatically disable PTHREAD_WARNSW
> as
> > threads terminate, using return from the entry function.  I was only
> using
> > pthread_exit() to leverage the thread cleanup stack capability, and queue
> a
> > call to pthread_set_mode_np(PTHREAD_WARNSW, 0) .
>
> You can do that in the trampoline in src/skins/posix/thread.c, right
> after the call to entry(cookie). I will send a patch tonight if you prefer.
>

Yes, a patch would be appreciated at your earliest convenience.  No need to
rush it tonight. Do you consider this a candidate for released code, or
should I consider this a 1-off?

>
> thanks,
Jeff

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