softflowd/freelist.h

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2007 Damien Miller.  All rights reserved.
 *
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 */

#ifndef _FREELIST_H
#define _FREELIST_H

#include "common.h"

/* Simple freelist of fixed-sized allocations */
struct freelist {
	size_t allocsz;
	size_t nalloc;
	size_t navail;
	void **free_entries;
};

/*
 * Initialise a freelist.
 * allocsz is the size of the individual allocations
 */
void freelist_init(struct freelist *freelist, size_t allocsz);

/*
 * Get an entry from a freelist.
 * Will allocate new entries if necessary
 * Returns pointer to allocated memory or NULL on failure.
 */
void *freelist_get(struct freelist *freelist);

/*
 * Returns an entry to the freelist.
 * p must be a pointer to an allocation from the freelist.
 */
void freelist_put(struct freelist *freelist, void *p);

#endif /* FREELIST_H */