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Re: FW: Mailboxes - priorities of messages
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Gorjup Matthias <Matthias dot Gorjup at SIEMENS dot AT>
- Cc: "''Ecos-Discuss (E-Mail)'" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:14:57 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] FW: [ECOS] Mailboxes - priorities of messages
- References: <BFB6C6946ED8D211B1A60800060DA36906BDD544@GRZS103A>
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:48:19PM +0200, Gorjup Matthias wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Here are some details of our mBox problem;
>
> When more than one thread (task) is using the same mBox to communicate with
> one another thread, the send/received mails(messages) has to be kept in a
> message qeue. ( or they arrive to mBox and kept in an order qeue).
>
> In this message qeue, we need to put the process of the messages (mails) in
> a prioritisation. For example , a critical mail send by a timeout function
> has to be processed before a user request mail which is send through the
> same mBox to the same thread.
eCos has nothing like this. You will have to implement your own
mailbox functions on top of the eCos kernel API.
Andrew
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