EvbOrderer

Returns information about input queue statistics. The data are returned as a list. The elements of the list are in order:

• The oldest timestamp of all the in-flight fragments the input queues.

• The newest timestamp of all the in-flight fragments in the input queues.

• The total number of in-flight fragments over all input queues.

• A list of elements for each source queue. Each element of this list is itself a sublist that contains in order, the source id, the number of fragments in the queue (depth), the timestamp of the oldest fragment in the queue, the number of bytes in the fragments queued in the queue and the number of bytes that have been dequeued from the queue.

  All of these statistics get reset when the EVB::reset command is executed.

The operation of this command depends on its subcommand. If the first command word after the command is clear the output queue counters held by the compiled code are all cleared.

If the second word of this command is get The command returns statistics about the fragments that have been removed from the input queues. Note that a fragment gets removed from an input queue because it is known how to order it into the output of the event builder.

The return value of this command is a list that contains in order:

• Total number of fragments de-queued for transmission.

• Statistics for each input queue. This is a list of two element sublists. The first element of each sublist is the source id. The second element is the number of fragments that have been de-queued from this input queue.

Returns statistics about the data late fragments. A fragment is considered late if dequeueing it is gauranteed to create an error in the total ordering of the output fragments. Normally fragments are only emitted after they have been either held in the queues for some minimum time or when there are fragments in all input queues. If a data source is slow sending fragments fragments may arrive with timestamps that are smaller than the fragments that have already been emitted.

A large number of data late cases implies you should change the event building window. See the config command below for a description of how to do this.

The return value of this command is a list with the following elements on it in order:

• Total number of data late fragments.

• Worst case data late (biggest difference between the arrival time of the late fragment and the end of the window in which it should have been emitted.

• Per data source dta liate counts. This is a list of two element lists containnig the data source id and the number of late fragments it emitted. Only data sources that have been late are represented in this list (no zeroes).

• Per source worst case late time differences. For each source that has exhibited at least one data late condition, this list has a two element sublist containing the source id and the worst case time difference.

Returns information about the duplicate timestamps that were seen from data sources. Note that if data sources emit data that don't have timestamps (for example scaler data may or may not be timestamped), there will be duplicates due to the way in which those items are assigned a timestamp.

The data returned are a Tcl list consisting of two elements. The first element is the total number of duplicate timestamps received over all queues. The second element is itself a list of three element lists, one element for each source in which duplicates have been detected. The three elements are, in order, the id of the source, the number of duplicates and the timestamp of the most recently detected duplicate.

This command allows you to provide a script that can be notified of a data late condition.

If newScript is supplied, it replaces any existing data late handler script. If newScript is empty any prior script is removed and there will be no data late script handler. If newScript is not supplied, no change to the script is performed. Regardless, the command returns handler script (possibly empty) as it was prior to executing the command. This allows you to support multiple scripts by implementing a chaining mechanism.

When a handler script is called the following items are appended to it:

• The source ide of the source that is at fault.

• The timestamp of th source

• The most recent timestamp seen

• A binary byte array containing the fragment body. You can use binary scan to retrieve elements from this item.

Allows you to establish a script that is executed when a barrier occurs. The sub-command indicates whether the trace is for complete or incomplete> barriers.

If the sub-command is complete the trace on complete barriers is queried or modified. A complete barrier is one for which all sources contribute a barrier event fragment within the timeout. It is not necessary that all barrier fragments be of the same type. If they are not, this case is called a heterogeneous barrier.

If the sub-command is incomplete the trace on incomplete barriers is queried or modified. An incomplete barrier is one or which at least one data source did not contribute a barrier fragment within the sorting time window.

In all cases, if the script is an empty string the corresponding barrier event will no longer have a script attached to it. If the script is omitted completely, the trace is not changed. All versions of the command return the selected trace script as it was prior to the command.

Complete barrier scripts have appended to them a list of pairs. Each pair contains a data source id and the barrier type for that source id. Incomplete barrier scripts have two argument appended to them. The first is the same as what is appended to complete barrier scripts (but only for the source ids that actually contributed a barrier fragment), the second is a list of the sources that were missing from the barrier event.

Creates new source queues associated with a socket. This is normally not intended to be used by application code. socket is a file descriptor open on a client socket. id1.. are source ids. An input queue is created for each source id and bound to the socket. Note that you must be very careful using this in applications since creating sources that don't exist can result in incomplete barriers if you are using barriers.

If the socket and source are not supplied the command returns the list of source ids..

Marks the event source id as dead. A dead source is not expected to participate in any barrier events. A dead source will become alive again if it's client contributes any data for that source. Sources can also be resurrected if revieSocket is called on the socket to which they are bound.

Revies a socket. All of the event sources associated with that socket are marked alive again.

Flushes the contents of all queues to the output. This can be called when you are pretty certain there won't be any more data in the near future (e.g. the run just ended). The command causes all remaining in-flight data to be sorted and output. If you don't call this it doesn't really matter, the time window will eventually ensure the data are output.

Resets timestamps back to the initial state. This needs to be done if there's something that can cause the event sources to reset their timstamps as part of their synchronization process.

Returns the barrier statistics. The barrier statistics consist of a two element list. The first element describes complete barriers and is in turn a list containing in order:

• The total number of barriers encountered

• The number of homgeneous barriers

• The number of heterogeneous barriers.

• The number of fragments of each barrier type This is a list of pairs of barrier type and number of fragments of that type.

• Statistics by event source, which is a list each item of which is a list containning in order The source id, the numbder of barrier fragments seen from this source and a list of pairs containning fragment type and number of associated fragments of that type.

The second element describes the incomplete barriers. This is a list whose elements are in order:

• Number of incomplete barriers

• Number of homgeneous incomplete barriers

• Number of heterogenous incomplete barriers

• A list of pairs containing barrier type and the number of times it occurs.

• Source statistics which are a list of pairs. Each pair is a source id and the number of times it was absent from a barrier.

Sets a configuration variable. name determines which configuration variable will be modified and value provides the new value.

The supported configuration parameters are:

Returns the value of a configuration parameter name. The only name supported at this time is window which returns the build time window.