Module channel

A queue for sending values between asynchronous tasks.

It can be used concurrently by multiple producers (senders) and multiple consumers (receivers), i.e. it is an “MPMC channel”.

Receivers are competing for messages. So a message that is received by one receiver is not received by any other.

This queue takes a Mutex type so that various targets can be attained. For example, a ThreadModeMutex can be used for single-core Cortex-M targets where messages are only passed between tasks running in thread mode. Similarly, a CriticalSectionMutex can also be used for single-core targets where messages are to be passed from exception mode e.g. out of an interrupt handler.

This module provides a bounded channel that has a limit on the number of messages that it can store, and if this limit is reached, trying to send another message will result in an error being returned.

Structs

• Channel
  A bounded channel for communicating between asynchronous tasks with backpressure.
• DynamicReceiveFuture
  Future returned by DynamicReceiver::receive.
• DynamicReceiver
  Receive-only access to a Channel without knowing channel size.
• DynamicSendFuture
  Future returned by DynamicSender::send.
• DynamicSender
  Send-only access to a Channel without knowing channel size.
• ReceiveFuture
  Future returned by Channel::receive and Receiver::receive.
• ReceiveReadyFuture
  Future returned by Channel::ready_to_receive and Receiver::ready_to_receive.
• Receiver
  Receive-only access to a Channel.
• SendFuture
  Future returned by Channel::send and Sender::send.
• Sender
  Send-only access to a Channel.

Enums

• TryReceiveError
  Error returned by try_receive.
• TrySendError
  Error returned by try_send.