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Re: Interrupts: can be lost?

From Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
Subject Re: Interrupts: can be lost?
Date 2020-07-08 17:33 +0300
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On 8.7.20 17.01, Rick C wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 7:57:43 AM UTC-4, Tauno Voipio wrote:
>> On 8.7.20 11.43, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>> On 2020-07-08 10:02, David Brown wrote:
>>>> On 08/07/2020 00:38, pozz wrote:
>>>>> https://www.safetty.net/download/pont_pttes_2001.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> Page 13
>>>>> Note carefully what this means! There is a common misconception among
>>>>> the developers of embedded applications that interrupt events will never
>>>>> be lost. This simply is not true. If you have multiple sources of
>>>>> interrupts that may appear at ‘random’ time intervals, interrupt
>>>>> responses can be missed: indeed, where there are several active
>>>>> interrupt sources, it is practically impossible to create code that will
>>>>> deal correctly with all possible combinations of interrupts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Those words are incredible for me. I suspect I didn't get the point of
>>>>> the author. I don't think that interrupt events on modern microntrollers
>>>>> can be lost in some circumstances.
>>>>
>>>> The book was written in 2001, using a microcontroller that, while very
>>>> popular (and still not dead), was 20 years out of date at the time.  I
>>>> haven't looked at it yet, and can't judge the quality of the book.  But
>>>> beware that some things in it could be limited by that microcontroller
>>>> architecture.
>>>>
>>>> However, the principle here is correct.  It is part of a more general
>>>> principle that is actually quite simple:
>>>>
>>>> If you have event counters or trackers that have limited capacity, and
>>>> you do not handle the events before that capacity is exceeded, your
>>>> system will lose events (by either ignoring new ones, or ejecting old
>>>> ones).
>>>
>>> Indeed.
>>>
>>> Note that the book's author clearly has an axe to grind here[1], because
>>> he advocates using "time triggering" instead of event- (interrupt-)
>>> triggering. So he's trying to make you afraid of interrupts.
>>>
>>> Of course a similar problem applies to time-triggered systems: if you
>>> trigger a task every millisecond, but the task sometimes needs more than
>>> a millisecond to complete... something bad can happen.
>>>
>>> [1] Or, as is said here in Finland, "he has his own cow in the ditch".
>>
>>
>> The writer is advocating the 8051 family, which is awfully clumsy for
>> running real multi-threading. Besides, it should be forgotten in favor
>> of e.g. the Cortex-M processors, which are even at least as inexpensive
>> as the 8051's with required support.
>>
>> (Mooo! from southern Finland).
> 
> That would be nice in an ideal world.  I know of one designer that will still use the 8051 processor in designs that require a second source and longevity of supply.  When qualification of a design is very expensive these properties can be very important.  If the 8051 is the only processor that meets these requirements then that is the one you will use.
> 
> There are many, many ARM MCUs on the market today.  Which ones will still be around in 20 years?


I designed a bunch of instruments with ARM7TDMI 20 years ago, and the
chips are still around.

-- 

-TV

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Interrupts: can be lost? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 00:38 +0200
  Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-07-08 09:11 +1000
    Re: Interrupts: can be lost? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 08:13 +0200
      Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-08 09:13 +0200
  Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-07 16:14 -0700
    Re: Interrupts: can be lost? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 08:16 +0200
      Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 06:55 -0700
  Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-08 09:02 +0200
    Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2020-07-08 11:43 +0300
      Re: Interrupts: can be lost? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 12:24 +0200
        Re: Interrupts: can be lost? antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-07-09 23:24 +0000
          Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Dave Nadler <drn@nadler.com> - 2020-07-09 17:13 -0700
          Re: Interrupts: can be lost? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2020-07-10 08:09 +0200
            Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 23:39 -0700
            Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-10 08:59 +0200
      Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2020-07-08 14:57 +0300
        Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 07:01 -0700
          Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-08 16:07 +0200
            Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 07:35 -0700
              Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-09 14:16 +0200
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 11:04 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2020-07-09 14:32 -0400
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-09 11:47 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? lasselangwadtchristensen@gmail.com - 2020-07-09 15:22 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Dave Nadler <drn@nadler.com> - 2020-07-09 15:35 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 18:41 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-07-10 16:01 +1000
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 23:28 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-07-29 19:44 +0100
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 13:23 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-07-29 22:57 +0100
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 16:47 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-07-30 10:04 +1000
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 17:46 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-07-30 11:04 +1000
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 21:16 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2020-07-30 16:36 +1000
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-31 11:26 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-07-30 01:11 +0100
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 17:53 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-07-30 19:05 +0100
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2020-07-31 00:21 +0300
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-08-04 20:40 +0200
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-08-04 14:36 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-08-04 22:32 -0400
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-08-05 15:26 +0200
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? upsidedown@downunder.com - 2020-07-30 08:31 +0300
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2020-07-30 07:53 +0100
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-07-30 08:10 -0400
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-09 18:40 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-10 09:09 +0200
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-10 01:41 -0700
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-10 13:47 +0200
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2020-07-11 13:41 +0300
          Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2020-07-08 17:33 +0300
            Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 09:31 -0700
              Re: Interrupts: can be lost? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-07-09 14:30 +0200
              Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Przemek Klosowski <przemek@tux.dot.org> - 2020-07-19 18:38 +0000
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2020-07-19 23:11 +0300
                Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-07-19 13:43 -0700
    Re: Interrupts: can be lost? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2020-07-08 13:19 +0200
  Re: Interrupts: can be lost? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2020-07-09 08:00 -0400
  Re: Interrupts: can be lost? dalai lamah <antonio12358@hotmail.com> - 2020-07-11 12:12 +0200
    Re: Interrupts: can be lost? pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2020-07-13 08:35 +0200

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