Name

mempool_create — create a memory pool

Synopsis

mempool_t * mempool_create (int  min_nr,
 mempool_alloc_t *  alloc_fn,
 mempool_free_t *  free_fn,
 void *  pool_data);

Arguments

min_nr

the minimum number of elements guaranteed to be allocated for this pool.

alloc_fn

user-defined element-allocation function.

free_fn

user-defined element-freeing function.

pool_data

optional private data available to the user-defined functions.

Description

this function creates and allocates a guaranteed size, preallocated memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc and mempool_free functions. This function might sleep. Both the alloc_fn and the free_fn functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc function is not called from IRQ contexts.