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Re: [lwip-devel] PPP client in multithreaded OS
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Jonathan Larmour |
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Re: [lwip-devel] PPP client in multithreaded OS |
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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:23:09 +0100 |
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Dustin Stahlback wrote:
> Currently the PPP client is created as a new thread. Would it be ever
> prudent to make the PPP client part of the TCPIP task? Just tell me if
> you guys think this would be a dumb approach.
The PPP thread can sometimes sleep (look for calls to sys_msleep). The
tcpip thread must never sleep. It would require quite a few changes to
change the PPP thread execution to prevent that. Not impossible, but not
straightforward.
Jifl
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