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[v8,1/2] ring: add reset API to flush the ring when not in use

Message ID 1562923603-27755-2-git-send-email-gavin.hu@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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Series new ring reset api and use it by hash |

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Commit Message

Gavin Hu July 12, 2019, 9:26 a.m. UTC 
  Currently, the flush is done by dequeuing the ring in a while loop. It is
much simpler to flush the queue by resetting the head and tail indices.

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
---
 lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h
index e5a175c..0213b08 100644
--- a/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h
+++ b/lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h
@@ -669,6 +669,27 @@  rte_ring_dequeue(struct rte_ring *r, void **obj_p)
 }
 
 /**
+ * Flush a ring.
+ *
+ * This function flush all the elements in a ring
+ *
+ * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
+ *
+ * @warning
+ * Make sure the ring is not in use while calling this function.
+ *
+ * @param r
+ *   A pointer to the ring structure.
+ */
+__rte_experimental
+static inline void
+rte_ring_reset(struct rte_ring *r)
+{
+	r->prod.head = r->cons.head = 0;
+	r->prod.tail = r->cons.tail = 0;
+}
+
+/**
  * Return the number of entries in a ring.
  *
  * @param r