How to talk to a specific thread in a server

[Yuxin Ren]

Thanks a lot.
I solved this problem finally.
Instead of using register server, each thread creates a ipc_gate and
manually binds itself to that ipc_gete.
It works well now.


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Björn Döbel <doebel at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>wrote:

> Could you share your client and server's code?
>
> Bjoern
>
> Am 08.05.2014 21:02, schrieb Yuxin Ren:
> > Year,
> > I did those thing. Each server tread has its own server obj and register
> > server instance, and it calls register_obj() and server.loop() on their
> own.
> > But this does not work. And actually the master thread in server always
> > receives all requests. When I let the master thread to spin, the server
> > cannot
> > receive any request, even though other threads in server block on the
> > server.loop() function.
> > I am really confused about it.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Björn Döbel <
> doebel at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>wrote:
> >
> > Am Do 08 Mai 2014 18:17:54 CEST schrieb Yuxin Ren:
> >>>> HiThank you very much for your reply.I did what you said, but the
> > behavior is very confusing.I create two channels in lua script, and
> > correspond each channel to a pair of client and server threads.
> >>>> In the server side, each thread registers its own server obj to its
> > own Registry_server, and of course they have different dispatch
> > functions.Now the result is only one server thread receive all requests
> > from client, and it selects different dispatch function to run based on
> the
> > request.
> >>>> But I want different threads to run different dispatch function, not
> > only one server thread process all requests using different dispatch
> > functions.Do you have any ideas about this?Thank you.
> >>>> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Björn Döbel <
> doebel at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
> > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> ********* *ANFANG des verschlüsselten oder unterschriebenen Bereichs*
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> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 08.05.2014 03:29, Yuxin Ren wrote:
> >>>>> I have one client and one server talking to each other, and both of
> >>>>> them have 2 threads. I want thread 1 in client only talk to thread
> >>>>> 1 in server, and thread 2 in client only talk to thread 2 in
> >>>>> server. How can I achieve this?
> >>>>
> >>>> The simple client/server example
> >>>> (http://wiki.tudos.org/L4Re_simple_client_server_example) shows how
> to
> >>>> connect a single thread in each process (or task in L4 speak). You
> >>>> could extend this example to create two channels in the Lua setup
> >>>> file, pass both channels to the tasks during startup and then let each
> >>>> thread use one of them for communication with its counterpart.
> >>>>
> >>>> Note that does not completely enforce your requirement that each
> >>>> thread can only talk to exactly one other. Capabilities (e.g., for the
> >>>> communication channels) are shared per task and technically each
> >>>> thread could therefore send messages on each channel. If you want
> >>>> strict isolation, you have to separate the threads into separate
> tasks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bjoern
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >
> > Quick guess: your separate threads need to call the register_obj()
> > function and the server.loop() functions on their own. (You also need
> > two independent instances of the Server_object.)
> >
> > Bjoern
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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