Re: who wakes the sendsms thread

Found another detail. The write thread seems to be blocking inside tcdrain()
call from at2_write_line.

what could be the issue here?

thanks,
akshat

On 8/20/06, Akshat Choudhary <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I noticed the two threads. The one which is supposed to write to the
> modem is the one that appears to be blocking and delaying the whole system.
> The outgoing_sms list is getting populated for that device but it is not
> waking up as soon as the message is forwarded. How can we wake this thread
> so that all outgoing messages are sent out immediately.
>
> Thanks,
> akshat
>
>
> On 8/20/06, Andreas Fink <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > There are usually two threads on AT driver. One sitting on the device to
> > READ. So its waiting in a poll call until some data arrives to be read. The
> > other sits on a list and waits until bearerbox main driver puts something in
> > it and wakes the thread by doing that.
> >
> > On 20.08.2006, at 09:04, Akshat Choudhary wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a new user of kannel. I am using kannel with a GSM modem, but I
> > have noticed this one issue. Suppose I try and send a message using
> > "sendsms" the message is sent only after some irregular interval. But, if I
> > send a sms from my mobile, to which the reply is sent using "sendsms" the
> > message is sent immediately. Also any other queued messages are sent at that
> > time too.
> >
> > Now I tried looking into the code and was lost in this maze of threads
> > and locks. On further inspection I figured that the "at2_device_thread"
> > blocks but was unable to figure out the event which will unblock this
> > thread, leading to the message being sent.
> >
> > Please help. Also any architecture guide giving details of the threads
> > and the locks will be very helpful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > akshat
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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