RE: [lwip-users] [lwip users] using threads in our application safely???

[Bertrik Sikken]

I'm no lwIP expert but here are my thoughts:

* Why are you starting main_thread as a separate thread?

As far as I can see, there is no need to do so and you can just make a blocking call to main_thread instead.

* It seems to me that you are trying to do a lot of complicated things all at once.

Try to keep things as simple as possible, so start with something simple that works,

then add some more functionality and check if it still works, etc.

* Aren't you missing a netif_set_up call somewhere?

I would expect this just after the netif_add call.

 

Kind regards,

 

Bertrik Sikken
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Subject: [lwip-users] [lwip users] using threads in our application safely???

 

Hi Friends ,

 

         I already posted lot of questions to this group regarding my tftp client implementation of lwip , but I did not get any replies .I also posted my source code implementation , but the same. I hope you can guide me with my probelm this time . As I said I am writing a tftp client application on lwip using the socket API ,tapif interface (using bridge configuration ) on Redhat linux 2.4.20-8 . I need to put and get files from/ to a remote server. But both   put and get are not working.While getting I am only getting first 512 bytes and then tapif_input function halts I am creating only 1 thread in my application and I guess this is making problems , How can I use thread mechanism safely in my application ??? I am herewith attaching my implementation to this email , please have a look and suggest me in this ...Help!!!!!!!

 

 

 Also one more thing is I profile my whole stack using gprof /Functioncheck (profiling tools on linux ) as a part of my work , these tools are giving erroneous(wrong) results  for example sys_arch_sem_wait is called 744 times , sys_sem_signal is called 699 times ...and so on.... do u guys really think that these functions are called this many number of times.... I run my application and then run the tool , so it is a dynamic execution profiler.....I guess there is a problem with my thread implementation....

 

Please find below attached source code of my tftp client....in a zip file ... the important parts of the code to look at are

 

1. main_changed.c   (main function , main_thread function , setpeer , get ,put

2. tftp_changed.c    (tftp_sendfile , tftp_recvfile)

3.tftpsubs_changed.c (which implements the buffer  mechanism )

 

 

Please help me!!!!!

 

 

Regards

Durga