From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: Huang Qiang <jameshq@liverpool.ac.uk>
Cc: eCos <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Question about "allow per-thread timer" selection option in eCos
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:07:00 -0000
Message-id: <3AE050AD.56987B6C@redhat.com>
References: <KIEBICHBADHFCLGCKOPDGEEICBAA.jameshq@liv.ac.uk>
X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00274.html

Huang Qiang wrote:
> 
> Can cyg_thread_delay() routine work withourt allow per-thread timer option
> (in eCos configuration) selected?
> 
> I try to implement cyg_thread_delay() with allow per-thread timer enabled
> but the program halted forever but when I remove the allow per-thread timer
> selection in eCos configuration the program can work with
> cyg_thread_delay(). ( But it seems no actual delay in the thread which call
> the cyg_thread_delay() ) What's wrong?

With per-thread timers disabled, cyg_thread_delay() does absolutely
nothing.

Are you sure you're calling cyg_thread_delay with the correct units? It's
clock ticks, not seconds/milliseconds/etc.

Have you used or looked at the twothreads example program? That uses
cyg_thread_delay.

Jifl
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