From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Cressent Subject: Re: preallocation of void ** obj_p of rte_ring_dequeue Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 10:33:25 +0000 Message-ID: <20131105103325.GA25808@debian> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" To: Jose Gavine Cueto Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 06:15:01PM +0800, Jose Gavine Cueto wrote: > > When using *static int rte_ring_dequeue( structe rte_ring * r, void ** > obj_p )*, is the user presumed to allocate obj_p , or does this method > allocates this obj_p ? This method doesn't allocate anything ; you have to allocate the object you want to fill yourself. You can find more details about how to work with rings there: - DPDK Programmer's Guide (Chapter 5 - Ring Library) - DPDK API Documentation for rte_ring.h Both of which are accessible at http://dpdk.org/doc Quite a few sample applications (examples/ directory in the DPDK distribution) also make use of rings, notably the quota_watermark one, so it's also a good place to look at. On a side note, it looks like the API reference page for rte_ring.h is broken? It's missing a lot of functions. I'll look into it if I get a chance. http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__ring_8h.html#func-members Cyril