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@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ Ring Buffers
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The ESP-IDF FreeRTOS ring buffer is a strictly FIFO buffer that supports arbitrarily sized items.
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Ring buffers are a more memory efficient alternative to FreeRTOS queues in situations where the
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size of items is variable. The capacity of a ring buffer is not measured by the number of items
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-it can store, but rather by the amount of memory used for storing items. You may apply for a
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-piece of memory on the ring buffer to send an item, or just use the API to copy your data and send
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-(according to the send API you call). For efficiency reasons,
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+it can store, but rather by the amount of memory used for storing items. The ring buffer provides API
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+to send an item, or to allocate space for an item in the ring buffer to be filled manually by the user.
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+For efficiency reasons,
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**items are always retrieved from the ring buffer by reference**. As a result, all retrieved
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-items *must also be returned* in order for them to be removed from the ring buffer completely.
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+items *must also be returned* to the ring buffer by using :cpp:func:`vRingbufferReturnItem` or :cpp:func:`vRingbufferReturnItemFromISR`, in order for them to be removed from the ring buffer completely.
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The ring buffers are split into the three following types:
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**No-Split** buffers will guarantee that an item is stored in contiguous memory and will not
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