X-Git-Url: https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsrc%2Fman%2Frmr_init.3.xfm;h=5e53e63d999e192606a2e038f1aa4be73313d1cc;hb=a1575dacc478b945ea63f5d0cc3db3d66dcb5983;hp=5413beb3856887019cb312a7dee4f5e78e706b3b;hpb=bc3de17c3b959fcc6a5ba42f5d3b09402bf89687;p=ric-plt%2Flib%2Frmr.git diff --git a/doc/src/man/rmr_init.3.xfm b/doc/src/man/rmr_init.3.xfm index 5413beb..5e53e63 100644 --- a/doc/src/man/rmr_init.3.xfm +++ b/doc/src/man/rmr_init.3.xfm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .if false ================================================================================== - Copyright (c) 2019 Nokia - Copyright (c) 2018-2019 AT&T Intellectual Property. + Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Nokia + Copyright (c) 2018-2020 AT&T Intellectual Property. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. @@ -51,9 +51,15 @@ send messages. &space &ital(Port) is used to listen for connection requests from other RMR based applications. -The value of &ital(max_msg_size) will be used when allocating zero copy send buffers -which must be allocated, possibly, prior to the application knowing the actual size of -a specific message. +The &ital(max_msg_size) parameter is used to allocate receive buffers and is the +maximum message size which the application expects to receive. +This value is the sum of &bold(both) the maximum payload size &bold(and) the maximum +trace data size. +This value is also used as the default message size when allocating message buffers. +Messages arriving which are longer than the given maximum will be dropped without +notification to the application. +A warning is written to standard error for the first message which is too large on +each connection. &space &ital(Flags) allows for selection of some RMr options at the time of initialisation. @@ -73,6 +79,15 @@ following flags are supported: &half_space &diitem(RMRFL_MTCALL) Enable multi-threaded call support. + +&half_space +&ditem(RMRFL_NOLOCK) + Some underlying transport providers (e.g. SI95) enable locking to be turned off + if the user application is single threaded, or otherwise can guarantee that RMR + functions will not be invoked concurrently from different threads. Turning off + locking can help make message receipt more efficient. + If this flag is set when the underlying transport does not support disabling + locks, it will be ignored. &end_dlist &h3(Multi-threaded Calling) @@ -81,7 +96,7 @@ was limited such that only user applications which were operating in a single th could safely use the function. Further, timeouts were message count based and not time unit based. Multi-threaded call support adds the ability for a user application with multiple threads -to invoke a blocking call function with the guarentee that the correct response message +to invoke a blocking call function with the guarantee that the correct response message is delivered to the thread. The additional support is implemented with the &ital(rmr_mt_call()) and &ital(rmr_mt_rcv()) function calls.