Re: [Xenomai] Are concurrent writes to XDDP sockets allowed ?

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

On 05/21/2015 05:03 PM, Thierry Bultel wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 21/05/2015 14:07, Philippe Gerum a écrit :
>> On 05/21/2015 08:34 AM, Thierry Bultel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> In an application, we have one regular thread listening on an RTP
>>> device,
>>> and 2 realtime threads that concurrently write data in the XDDP socket
>>> backend.
>>> We use the POSIX skin.
>>>
>>> Sometimes, the regular thread gets its blocking read() call just
>>> return 0.
>>> That never happens with the classic "one reader, one writer" case.
>>>
>>> Also, we notice that the 'return 0' case occurrence is not the same,
>>> depending
>>> on the fact that the realtime task uses 'write' instead of 'sendto'
>>> (more occurrences with 'sendto')
>>>
>> There is no restriction with respect to concurrent sending to such
>> socket.
> Ok, thanks
>> Knowing about the Xenomai release number,
> This is 2.6.4
>> and a simple test code that
>> actually illustrates the intended usage and ideally reproduces the issue
>> would help.
> Here is the test code, based on xddp-echo.c . Unfortunalely this does
> not reproduce the issue.
> Compared to our application, we also have 3 other additional
> realtime-regular pairs communicating on 3 dedicated channels.
> 
> What would trigger the 'read' return with zero ?

Sending zero len messages from the rt side via sendto(), which is legit
with XDDP. Using write() won't send anything.

-- 
Philippe.