Scheduling without Timeslice...

[Joel Sherrill]

Cedric Aubert wrote:

>>No.  You are right.
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>>This is an old configuration hack to be able to
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>dynamically turn
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>>libc reentrancy on and off.  I doubt that this is
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>useful anymore
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>>and probably should be killed.  It is better to just
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>always have
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>>reentrancy on.
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>>If we want the ability to turn it off without
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>recompiling the
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>>BSP, then there should be another mechanism.
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>So, should I made a patch to remove this feature ? and
>force libc to be reentrant ?
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Feel free to do so.  I filed a PR on it so we can attach it to that.

>>>>   void bsp_libc_init(...)
>>>>   {
>>>>       ...
>>>>       if ( BSP_Configuration.ticks_per_timeslice
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>>0 )
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>>>>         libc_init(1);                /*
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>reentrant if
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>>>>possible */
>>>>       else
>>>>         libc_init(0);                /*
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>non-reentrant
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>>>>*/
>>>>   }
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