[kepler-dev] Threaded actors in the DE Domain

[Edward A. Lee]

But setDeferringChangeRequests(false) is only one of the ways that
change requests can be executed.  They are also executed in Manager.iterate(),
on every iteration of the model.

I suspect that I have found a bug in DEDirector that would cause
it to block execution of change requests. Basically, it sits in
a loop waiting for events to appear on the event queue (or waiting
for real time to pass if you have synchronizeToRealTime set), but
while in this loop, it essentially ignores calls to its stopFire()
method. These calls occur on each changeRequest, and are meant
to cause the director to return control to the Manager.

I've implemented and checked in a fix in DEDirector.
Can you try removing your executeChangeRequests() call and
see if this solves the problem?

Edward



At 10:01 AM 9/13/2007, ian.brown at hsbcib.com wrote:
>Edward, when I press the run button, ptolemy.actor.Manager.execute() is
>called ... and this runs the model until it is stopped. At the start, the
>initialize() method of this class calls setDeferringChangeRequests(true).
>This basically blocks any change requests.
>setDeferringChangeRequests(false) is only called in the finally clause of
>the execute() method once the model has been stopped.
>
>Ian
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>Ack, the call to executeChangeRequests() defeats the thread safety!
>In fact, the code is equivalent to just doing it in line.
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>Why is the change request deferred?  What is the DE Director doing
>when the change request is made?  Perhaps there is a bug there that
>we should fix...  To find out, I would try setting a breakpoint
>on the requestChange() line, and look at the state of the other
>(main) thread when this request is made.  I don't understand why
>the request would be ignored...
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