1 /* Copyright (c) 2006-2015. The SimGrid Team. All rights reserved. */
3 /* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
4 * under the terms of the license (GNU LGPL) which comes with this package. */
6 #ifndef SIMGRID_S4U_MAILBOX_HPP
7 #define SIMGRID_S4U_MAILBOX_HPP
11 #include <boost/unordered_map.hpp>
15 #include <simgrid/s4u/forward.hpp>
16 #include <simgrid/s4u/actor.hpp>
23 * Rendez-vous point for network communications, similar to URLs on which you could post and retrieve data.
24 * They are not network locations: you can post and retrieve on a given mailbox from anywhere on the network.
25 * You can access any mailbox without any latency. The network delay are only related to the location of the
26 * sender and receiver.
28 XBT_PUBLIC_CLASS Mailbox {
32 Mailbox(const char*name, smx_mailbox_t inferior);
37 smx_mailbox_t getInferior() { return pimpl_; }
40 /** Get the name of that mailbox */
41 const char *getName();
42 /** Retrieve the mailbox associated to the given string */
43 static Mailbox *byName(const char *name);
44 /** Returns whether the mailbox contains queued communications */
47 /** Declare that the specified process is a permanent receiver on that mailbox
49 * It means that the communications sent to this mailbox will start flowing to its host even before he does a recv().
50 * This models the real behavior of TCP and MPI communications, amongst other.
52 void setReceiver(Actor process);
53 /** Return the process declared as permanent receiver, or nullptr if none **/
59 static boost::unordered_map<std::string, Mailbox *> *mailboxes;
62 }} // namespace simgrid::s4u
64 XBT_PUBLIC(sg_mbox_t) sg_mbox_by_name(const char*name);
65 XBT_PUBLIC(int) sg_mbox_is_empty(sg_mbox_t mbox);
66 XBT_PUBLIC(void)sg_mbox_setReceiver(sg_mbox_t mbox, smx_process_t process);
67 XBT_PUBLIC(smx_process_t) sg_mbox_receiver(sg_mbox_t mbox);
69 #endif /* SIMGRID_S4U_MAILBOX_HPP */