rtems_task_wake_after()/usleep() sleeping less than requested?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 18/04/2019 13:41, Martin Erik Werner wrote:
> With our custom bsp of rtems (based on sparc/leon3 from 4.11.3) we are
> observing that rtems_task_wake_after() and usleep() quite often sleeps
> less than the requested amount when measured
> with rtems_clock_get_uptime_nanoseconds() timestamps.
>
> Is this expected behaviour for sleep in rtems or is this indicative of
> some issue in our bsp (possibly in the realms of our clock driver,
> either affecting the actual sleep or the measurement, or both).


For rtems_task_wake_after() this is the intended behaviour, however, the 
documentation could be more clear about this.

>
> The opengroup specification of usleep() indicates that it should always
> sleep equal to or more than the requested time, provided no signals:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/usleep.htm
>

I think this was fixed in RTEMS 5.1. It is infeasible to back port this 
fix to RTEMS 4.11.

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