RE: [lwip-users] sys_timeout

[Curt McDowell]

Christiaan,

The way sys_arch is implemented, timeouts can only fire when the main process 
is sleeping on a semaphore or mailbox using either
sys_sem_wait() or sys_mbox_fetch() in src/core/sys.c.

I think it's an architectural deficiency that any of sys_arch is implemented in 
the lwip core.  The whole idea of sys_arch is to
provide a system abstraction, but currently it's difficult to replace 
sys_timeout() and other sys_arch functionality with a native
O/S implementation.  Worse, any application that wants to use lwip is forced to 
be based on lwip's sys_arch primitives.

Regards,
Curt McDowell
Broadcom Corp.

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> Subject: [lwip-users] sys_timeout
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm struggling to get the ip_timer fired from the code in 
> lwip/src/api/tcpip.c (using sys_timeout). see CVS head.
> 
> Does anyone encountered similar problems before?
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Christiaan Simons
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> Hardware Designer
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