RTI Connext DDS Micro
Version 2.4.6
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This user-guide explains how the built-in INTRA transport works.
The built-in intra participant transport (INTRA) is a transport that bypasses RTPS and reduces the number of data-copies from three to one for data published by a data-writer to a data-reader within the same participant. When a sample is published it is copied directly to the data reader’s cache (if there is space). This transport is used for communication between data-readers and data-writers created within the same participant by default.
Please refer to Threading Model for important details regarding application constraints when using this transport.
The built-in INTRA transport is a RTI Connext DDS Micro component that is automatically registered when the DDS_DomainParticipantFactory_get_instance() method is called. By default, data published by a data-writer is sent to all data-readers within the same participant using the INTRA transport.
In order to prevent the INTRA transport from being used it is necessary to remove it as a transport and a user-data transport. The following code shows how to only use the builtin UDP transport for user-data.
Note that the INTRA transport is never used for discovery traffic internally. It is not possible to disable matching of data-readers and data-writers within the same participant.
The Reliability and Durability Qos policies are not supported by the INTRA transport. However, by creating all the data-readers before the data-writers durability is not required.
The INTRA transport does not create any threads. Instead, a data-reader receives data over the INTRA transport in the context of the data-writer’s send thread.
This model has two important limitations: