[Click] strange Timer behaviour

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Remo,

What version of Click are you using?

Do you see the same behavior with TimedSource?

Eddie


On Jul 8, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Remo Strotkamp wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> we seem to be getting strange Timer behaviour with click.
> We first thought it was related to our arm platform, but
> it seems to be as well happening on my P4 pc.
>
> We basically use a timer to periodically create and send
> packets. If we use 1 ms as the period, we get close to
> 1000 packets created a second, but if we use 2ms it drops
> to just below 50packets a second only (49.121).
>
> here is the relevant code (run in userlevel):
>
> click config file:
> SendSosaetiNOPRISMHello(2, 00:03:2F:01:2E:56, 00:09:5B:91:2F:01) ->
> c::Counter() -> Discard;
> PokeHandlers(read c.rate , read c.byte_count, wait 1, loop);
>
>
> first argument is period in ms, second is source eth and 3rd is dest 
> eth
> address.
>
>
> relevant source code:
>
> void SendSosaetiNOPRISMHello::run_timer() {
>   output(0).push(make_hello());
>   _timer.schedule_after_ms(_period);
> }
>
> any ideas?
>
>
> remo
>
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