Sample Configuration 2: tibrequest and tibreply
This second example illustrates additional concepts in configuring transports and endpoint implementation, namely: binding a transport to carry several abilities; two-way message traffic; and connection-oriented transports with connecting and listening ends.
| tibrequest | tibreply | |
|---|---|---|
| Program Description | The sample program
tibrequest creates a publisher object, and sends messages over its one-to-many send ability.
tibrequest also creates an inbox subscriber object, and receives reply messages over its one-to-one receive ability. |
The sample program
tibreply creates a subscriber object, and receives request messages over its one-to-many receive ability.
It responds to each request message by sending back a reply message over its one-to-one send ability. |
| Endpoints | The sample realm defines the application tibrequest with one endpoint (named tibrequest-endpoint). | The sample realm defines the application tibreply with one endpoint (named tibreply-endpoint). |
Application Instance
Consider the rdma application instance, and the effect of its configuration.
| tibrequest | tibreply | |
|---|---|---|
| rdma Application Instance | The sample realm configures the rdma application instance of tibrequest, to match the identifier rdma. For matching processes, it implements tibrequest-endpoint with the transport rdma-request-tport, which carries the endpoint’s one-to-many send ability, and also its one-to-one receive ability. | The sample realm configures the rdma application instance of tibreply, to match the identifier rdma. For matching processes, it implements tibreply-endpoint with the transport rdma-reply-tport, which carries the endpoint’s one-to-many receive ability, and also its one-to-one send ability. |
| Listen/Connect | Notice that the two application instances specify a pair of fragmentary transports to implement their respective endpoints. Furthermore, those transports are complementary.
The essence of their relationship is that rdma-request-tport and rdma-reply-tport both specify the same port number. rdma-request-tport is the connecting end, while rdma-reply-tport is the listening end of the same port. Once they establish a connection between them, they work together to transmit data over that link. |
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| End Result | The effect is to join the two endpoints (tibrequest-endpoint and tibreply-endpoint) so that messages flow between them. The request messages flow from tibrequest to tibreply, and the reply messages flow in the opposite direction. | |