ros on a multiprocessor system

[Hartmut Birr]

Hi,

currently I'm trying to get ros to work on a multiprocessor system. There
exist many problems. The major problem is a dead lock, which occurs if
different processors try to acquire the DispatcherDatabaseLock and the
PiThreadLock. Sometimes, it seems, the sequence to acquire the two locks is
different. It would be nice, if someone can look for this problem.

- Hartmut

[James Tabor]

Hartmut Birr wrote:
>   Hi,
>  
>  currently I'm trying to get ros to work on a multiprocessor system. There
>  exist many problems. The major problem is a dead lock, which occurs if
>  different processors try to acquire the DispatcherDatabaseLock and the
>  PiThreadLock. Sometimes, it seems, the sequence to acquire the two locks is
>  different. It would be nice, if someone can look for this problem.
>  
>  - Hartmut  
>   
Hi!
I knew one of these days this would popup. I guess it's time to get a SMP system.
What type of board do you have?
James

[Hartmut Birr]

>   What type of board do you have? 
I bought an old ASUS P2B-DS board with two PIII/550MHz processors on ebay
for a few euros.

- Hartmut