Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] m-block timeouts, time passed, or pause?

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:57:25PM -0400, George Nychis wrote:
> Is there any way to get an approximate amount of time that has elapsed 
> since a timeout has been scheduled?  Or better yet, a way to pause a timer? 

Nope.

> This is extremely useful for backoff periods in MAC contention protocols.  
> Where, for instance, the timer is only decremented when the channel is 
> considered idle.  The best method would be a way to pause it.  The 
> alternative would be to find the time passed, cancel it, and then when the 
> channel becomes idle to schedule another timer with the amount of remaining 
> time.

How often are you checking for channel idle?  Couldn't you just cancel
and schedule a new one each time you check for channel idle?

> After checking mb_mblock.h, I don't think any of this is readily 
> available... can either of these can be simply implemented?  If so, can you 
> pass along some advice? :)
>
> Thanks!
> George

Eric