Hello, I wonder if the Rtnet Stack is driven at packet level, ie. if after every one received packet( or even buffer) an IRQ is received. I worked on a Project where a similar Problem with Ethernet communication had to be solved, and I just queued up enough receive buffers and just picked up anything that arrived at the start of a timeslot.
On 100Mbit and a 1ms timeslot, I calculated a max. of 150 received pakets. Not that realtime communication can get anywhere close to that, but you have to deal with worst cases and guarantee that your system aint missing the cpu time spend in IRQs for other things - even if you just decide to drop all those packets, the IRQ overhead would be there. So is Rtnet using "polling" at timeslots, or irqs? Kind Regards, Norbert PS. Complete unrelated, but are there any big companies using Xenomai / Rtnet that can be named? _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list Xenomai@xenomai.org https://xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
