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On Jan 19, 2016 3:53 AM, "Sebastian Huber" <<a href="mailto:sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de" target="_blank">sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The problem is that you set the time via rtems_clock_set() in Init(). The you wait via rtems_task_wake_after(5s in ticks). With a rtems_task_wake_after(n) you wait to the n-th next tick, thus your wait interval is slightly less than 5s in most cases.<br></p><p>That makes sense but it unfortunately makes the obvious explanation of ticker a bit more complicated. :)</p><p>0: RTEMS starts<br>0+t1: clock_set to TIME<br>0+t[234]: three wake afters<br><br>500th clock tick is now exactly five seconds from time 0 but TIME+5 seconds minus t1 clock time.</p><p>The thing that surprised me was that when I hacked in changes to use rtems_clock_get_tod_timeval(), the times do not indicate that 5 seconds of delay actually occurred.<br><br></p><p>TA1 599562000:1088<br>TA2 599562000:2143<br>TA3 599562000:3199<br>TA1 599562004:997954<br>TA2 599562009:977896<br>TA1 599562009:978937<br>TA3 599562014:957903<br>TA1 599562014:958944<br>TA2 599562019:957907</p><div>The tasks are delaying 500, 1000, and 1500 ticks with nanoseconds_per_tick = 10000000. Delay operations are guaranteed to be a minimum of the requested amount and this is not being honored.<br><br>I know this is a duration specified in clock ticks but it is really (ticks * nanoseconds per tick) long in real time.<br><br>I have not checked delays like sleep() and nanosleep() but tick based ones are 1 tick too short.</div><div><br></div><div>--joel</div><p dir="ltr"><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">> On 18/01/16 00:19, Joel Sherrill wrote:<br>
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>> Hi<br>
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>> With the recent clock changes, I am noticing that on some BSPs<br>
>> ticker is reporting times 4, 9, 14, ... instead of 5, 10, 15.<br>
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>> It looks like the time is 4.9999999 when it should simply be 5 so<br>
>> ticker just reports 4.<br>
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>> Given this is a visible change in behavior, I would like to know<br>
>> what causes it and how it can be resolved?<br>
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>> Thanks.<br>
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>> --joel<br>
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