RE: [ECOS] Net BSD network stack posix tasks -

["Alok Singh" <aloks at broadcom dot com>]

Thanks for all the suggestions. My only issue is, and a simple one, that
if I want to send a packet out of the device in the network thread
context, then I've problems. We have our implementation of message
queues, mutexes, and other stuff that all use POSIX calls. So the code
crashes, since I'm trying to make posix calls (while putting the packet
in the message queue, and using mutexes), in the context of native cyg
thread context. To overcome this problem, I'm queuing the packet coming
out of the network stack, and then another posix thread de-queues the
packet, and sends it out. This is working fine except that performance
is not that good, and some fine tuning is required. In the limited
testing I did while sending the packet out in the context of network
thread, the performance is better, and suits my purpose.

There is no issue with BSD stack. It runs perfectly fine.  

regards,
Alok

-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
[mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Nick
Garnett
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:56 PM
To: Alok Singh
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Net BSD network stack posix tasks -

"Alok Singh" <aloks@broadcom.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I don't understand licensing issues much. I've a question. Am I
allowed
> to convert network stack threads to posix threads instead of native
cyg
> threads?   I've compatibility issues making ecos network stack work
with
> my application (Posix based.) Though there are ways to overcome this
> issue, but they affect the performance of the system.

(I'm not sure why this has anything to do with licensing.)

The network threads are internal to the stack. POSIX threads are for
running application code. The network threads will never run
application code and so don't need to be POSIX threads. The network
threads work perfectly well alongside POSIX applications without
needing to be POSIX threads themselves.

I don't know what problems you are having, but your suggestion is
almost certainly the wrong solution. It sounds to me like you are
trying to do something that eCos doesn't support. Tell us what the
problem is and maybe someone can offer a better solution.


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