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Subject: RE: seq debugger
From: "Jeff Hill" <[email protected]>
To: "'Andrew Johnson'" <[email protected]>, "'Laznovsky, Michael'" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'EPICS core-talk'" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:07:14 -0600
Also note that variable accesses that might appear to be atomic on single
processor architectures might need mutex locking on SMP systems. A person
maintaining a multi-threaded code should read up on the additional
synchronization constraints imposed by SMP architectures (and their cache
coherency issues). I expect that increasing ubiquity of SMP based
motherboards will be a trend.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:21 AM
> To: Laznovsky, Michael
> Cc: EPICS core-talk
> Subject: Re: seq debugger
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Laznovsky, Michael wrote:
> >
> > Since the snc compiler doesn't currently generate any code to protect
> > any part of the "action" functions (the body of each "when"), perhaps
> > the easiest way to go would be to add semaphores around those (only if
> > compiled for debug, to avoid the overhead otherwise).  Any other ideas?
> 
> I don't know enough about the internal workings of the sequencer to
> provide specifics, but I wonder if there is currently any protection
> between a sequence action running and a CA event callback updating its
> monitored variable.  This would need exactly the same protection that
> we're talking about for the local variable access API, so you might want
> to investigate how that is done (if at all).  Of course the problem here
> is that single SNL program may have multiple state sets, and if you add
> a mutex the tasks for each state set could end fighting for access to
> the same (set of) variable(s).
> 
> - Andrew
> --
> Not everything that can be counted counts,
> and not everything that counts can be counted.
>    -- Albert Einstein


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