Directives

29.5. Directives#

This section details the directives of the Multiprocessing Manager. A subsection is dedicated to each of this manager’s directives and lists the calling sequence, parameters, description, return values, and notes of the directive.

29.5.1. rtems_multiprocessing_announce()#

Announces the arrival of a packet.

CALLING SEQUENCE:

void rtems_multiprocessing_announce( void );

DESCRIPTION:

This directive informs RTEMS that a multiprocessing communications packet has arrived from another node. This directive is called by the user-provided MPCI, and is only used in multiprocessing configurations.

NOTES:

This directive is typically called from an ISR.

This directive does not generate activity on remote nodes.

CONSTRAINTS:

The following constraints apply to this directive:

  • The directive may be called from within interrupt context.

  • The directive may be called from within device driver initialization context.

  • The directive may be called from within task context.

  • The directive may unblock a task. This may cause the calling task to be preempted.