Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
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Re: [Merge] lp:~dirk.zimoch/epics-base/named-soft-events into lp:epics-base |
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Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> |
To: |
Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:01:08 -0000 |
Backward compatibility:
There are two fundamentally different types of "events". Hardware events from an timing/event system and software event. They share only the name. Typically a hardware event is bound to a software event using the event record. The VAL field contains the software event and the INP field contains the hardware event. So far the event record binds a numerical hardware event to a numerical software event (the numbers may be different).
Example:
record (event, "$(NAME)") {
field (DTYP, "APS event receiver")
field (INP, "#C$(CARD) S$(HARDEVENT) @")
field (SCAN, "I/O Intr")
field (VAL, "$(SOFTEVENT)")
field (PRIO, "HIGH")
}
With this modification the records binds a numerical hardware event to a string software event (which may still consist of digits only if you like). Thus the change should be fully backward compatible.
However I will ask Timo and Babak to comment on this issue.
Performance:
I assumed a relatively small number of software event on a single IOC. Thus the O(n) behavior of a linear search (compared to the previous O(1) behaviour) would not be significant. Maybe that assumption is too optimistic.
Nevertheless I will try to re-work that piece of code. I have to see if I can reach O(1), e.g. using a hash value. At least O(log(n)) should be possible using a tree structure instead of a list.
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https://code.launchpad.net/~dirk.zimoch/epics-base/named-soft-events/+merge/26190
Your team EPICS Core Developers is requested to review the proposed merge of lp:~dirk.zimoch/epics-base/named-soft-events into lp:epics-base.
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