Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I should have said that this is windows-x86_64-static with base 7.0.3.1.

 

 

 

Folks,

 

I have added debugging print statements when sending a message on the epicsMessageQueue and when receiving the message on the epicsMessageQueue.  Each time a message is sent I print the UniqueID of the image that was sent.  When the message is received I also print the UniqueID of the message that was received.  The time between message is about 0.115 seconds, while the epicsMessageQueue receive timeout is 0.1 seconds. 

 

Here is what I observed:

 

2020/03/20 11:37:37.098 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=85

2020/03/20 11:37:37.098 ADSpinnaker::grabImage received uniqueID 85 from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.213 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=86

2020/03/20 11:37:37.213 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.214 ADSpinnaker::grabImage received uniqueID 86 from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.328 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=87

2020/03/20 11:37:37.328 ADSpinnaker::grabImage received uniqueID 87 from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.443 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=88

2020/03/20 11:37:37.443 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.445 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.546 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.557 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=89

2020/03/20 11:37:37.558 ADSpinnaker::grabImage received uniqueID 89 from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.672 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=90

2020/03/20 11:37:37.672 ADSpinnaker::grabImage received uniqueID 90 from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.784 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.787 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=91

2020/03/20 11:37:37.787 ADSpinnaker::grabImage received uniqueID 91 from message queue

 

Messages with UniqueID 85, 86, and 87 were received fine.  When reading messages 85 and 87 there was no timeout, but when reading 86 there was a timeout.  However,  0.001 second after that timeout the receive succeeded.

 

The problem is message 88.

 

2020/03/20 11:37:37.443 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=88

2020/03/20 11:37:37.443 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.445 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.546 ADSpinnaker::grabImage timeout receiving from message queue

2020/03/20 11:37:37.557 ImageEventHandler::OnImageEvent sending uniqueId=89

2020/03/20 11:37:37.558 ADSpinnaker::grabImage received uniqueID 89 from message queue

 

Note that it was sent at 37.443.  There were then 3 timeouts trying to read that message, at 37.443, 37.445, and 37.546.  Message 88 was never received!

 

Something seems seriously wrong here.  It is making me wonder if this is related to the problem with epicsTimeMonotonic that I observed with callbackRequestDelay and Andrew observed with epicsEventWaitWithTimeout?  What could cause that message #88 to never be received from the message queue?  Why are there 2 timeouts within 0.002 seconds, when the timeout is 0.1 second?

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

 

 

 

Folks,

 

I am having a problem with the areaDetector ADSpinnaker driver.  I am quite sure the problem is that I am doing something wrong in my C++ callback code.

 

The code in question is quite simple.

 

The following is a class that implements callbacks from the vendor library when a new image is available.  It inherits from the vendor’s ImageEvent class, and implments a method they define called OnImageEvent.  That method is passed a smart pointer of type ImagePtr.  I made a copy of that smart pointer and pass its address on an epicsMessageQueue.  The copy is deleted in the receiving function.

 

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class ImageEventHandler : public ImageEvent

{

public:

 

    ImageEventHandler(epicsMessageQueue *pMsgQ)

     : pMsgQ_(pMsgQ)

    {}

    ~ImageEventHandler() {}

 

    void OnImageEvent(ImagePtr image) {

        ImagePtr *imagePtrAddr = new ImagePtr(image);

 

        if (pMsgQ_->send(&imagePtrAddr, sizeof(imagePtrAddr)) != 0) {

            printf("OnImageEvent error calling pMsgQ_->send()\n");

        }

    }

 

private:

    epicsMessageQueue *pMsgQ_;

 

};

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This is the receiving function.

 

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asynStatus ADSpinnaker::grabImage()

{

    asynStatus status = asynSuccess;

    size_t nRows, nCols;

    NDDataType_t dataType;

    NDColorMode_t colorMode;

    int timeStampMode;

    int uniqueIdMode;

    int convertPixelFormat;

    bool imageConverted = false;

    int numColors;

    size_t dims[3];

    ImageStatus imageStatus;

    PixelFormatEnums pixelFormat;

    int pixelSize;

    size_t dataSize, dataSizePG;

    void *pData;

    int nDims;

    ImagePtr pImage;

    ImagePtr *imagePtrAddr=0;

    static const char *functionName = "grabImage";

 

    try {

        while(1) {

            unlock();

            int recvSize = pCallbackMsgQ_->receive(&imagePtrAddr, sizeof(imagePtrAddr), 0.1);

            lock();

            if (recvSize == sizeof(imagePtrAddr)) {

                break;

            } else if (recvSize == -1) {

                // Timeout

                int acquire;

                getIntegerParam(ADAcquire, &acquire);

                if (acquire == 0) {

                    return asynError;

                } else {

                    continue;

                }

            } else {

                asynPrint(pasynUserSelf, ASYN_TRACE_ERROR,

                        "%s::%s error receiving from message queue\n",

                        driverName, functionName);

                return asynError;

            }

        }

        pImage = *imagePtrAddr;

        // Delete the ImagePtr that was passed to us

        delete imagePtrAddr;

…

Finishing processing pImage …

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Note that I have a timeout of 0.1 second on the msgQ->receive() call.  if the call times out it tries again if it is still acquiring.  This allows the function to return quickly if acquisition is stopped after it is called.

 

This code generally works fine when the time between images is 0.1 second or less, or 0.12 seconds or more.  However, if the time between images is 0.115 seconds, for example, I “lose” about 2-3% of the images.  There are no error messages.  If I increase the 0.1 second timeout to 0.2 seconds, then images are lost if the time between images is about 0.215 seconds. 

 

It seems to me that the problem must be that another callback happens before the previous image has been processed.  I thought that making a copy of the smart pointer on the stack would prevent this, but I must be doing something wrong.  Perhaps I am deleting the smart pointer too soon, or perhaps the whole approach I am using is unsafe?

 

Any advice is much appreciated!

 

Thanks,

Mark