DDS_TransportPriorityQosPolicy Struct Reference

This QoS policy allows the application to take advantage of transports that are capable of sending messages with different priorities. More...

Data Fields
DDS_Long	value
	This policy is a hint to the infrastructure as to how to set the priority of the underlying transport used to send the data.

Detailed Description

This QoS policy allows the application to take advantage of transports that are capable of sending messages with different priorities.

The Transport Priority QoS policy is optional and only supported on certain OSs and transports. It allows you to specify on a per-DDS_DataWriter basis that the data sent by that DDS_DataWriter is of a different priority.

The DDS specification does not indicate how a DDS implementation should treat data of different priorities. It is often difficult or impossible for DDS implementations to treat data of higher priority differently than data of lower priority, especially when data is being sent (delivered to a physical transport) directly by the thread that called FooDataWriter_write. Also, many physical network transports themselves do not have a end-user controllable level of data packet priority.

Entity:

DDS_DataWriter, DDS_Topic

Properties:

RxO = N/A
Changeable = YES

Usage

In RTI Connext, for the ::NDDS_Transport_UDPv4_Plugin, the value set in the Transport Priority QoS policy is used in a setsockopt call to set the TOS (type of service) bits of the IPv4 header for datagrams sent by a DDS_DataWriter. It is platform-dependent how and whether the setsockopt has an effect. On some platforms, such as Windows and Linux, external permissions must be given to the user application in order to set the TOS bits.

It is incorrect to assume that using the Transport Priority QoS policy will have any effect at all on the end-to-end delivery of data from a DDS_DataWriter to a DDS_DataReader. All network elements, including switches and routers must have the capability and be enabled to actually use the TOS bits to treat higher priority packets differently. Thus the ability to use the Transport Priority QoS policy must be designed and configured at a system level; just turning it on in an application may have no effect at all.

Field Documentation

DDS_Long DDS_TransportPriorityQosPolicy::value

This policy is a hint to the infrastructure as to how to set the priority of the underlying transport used to send the data.

You may choose any value within the range of a 32-bit signed integer; higher values indicate higher priority. However, any further interpretation of this policy is specific to a particular transport and a particular DDS implementation. For example, a particular transport is permitted to treat a range of priority values as equivalent to one another.

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