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+/* $Id: pool.h 3553 2011-05-05 06:14:19Z nanang $ */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Teluu Inc. (http://www.teluu.com)
+ * Copyright (C) 2003-2008 Benny Prijono <benny@prijono.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+ */
+
+#include <pj/list.h>
+
+/* See if we use pool's alternate API.
+ * The alternate API is used e.g. to implement pool debugging.
+ */
+#if PJ_HAS_POOL_ALT_API
+# include <pj/pool_alt.h>
+#endif
+
+
+#ifndef __PJ_POOL_H__
+#define __PJ_POOL_H__
+
+/**
+ * @file pool.h
+ * @brief Memory Pool.
+ */
+
+PJ_BEGIN_DECL
+
+/**
+ * @defgroup PJ_POOL_GROUP Fast Memory Pool
+ * @brief
+ * Memory pools allow dynamic memory allocation comparable to malloc or the
+ * new in operator C++. Those implementations are not desirable for very
+ * high performance applications or real-time systems, because of the
+ * performance bottlenecks and it suffers from fragmentation issue.
+ *
+ * \section PJ_POOL_INTRO_SEC PJLIB's Memory Pool
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_ADVANTAGE_SUBSEC Advantages
+ *
+ * PJLIB's pool has many advantages over traditional malloc/new operator and
+ * over other memory pool implementations, because:
+ * - unlike other memory pool implementation, it allows allocation of
+ * memory chunks of different sizes,
+ * - it's very very fast.
+ * \n
+ * Memory chunk allocation is not only an O(1)
+ * operation, but it's also very simple (just
+ * few pointer arithmetic operations) and it doesn't require locking
+ * any mutex,
+ * - it's memory efficient.
+ * \n
+ * Pool doesn't keep track individual memory chunks allocated by
+ * applications, so there is no additional overhead needed for each
+ * memory allocation (other than possible additional of few bytes, up to
+ * PJ_POOL_ALIGNMENT-1, for aligning the memory).
+ * But see the @ref PJ_POOL_CAVEATS_SUBSEC below.
+ * - it prevents memory leaks.
+ * \n
+ * Memory pool inherently has garbage collection functionality. In fact,
+ * there is no need to free the chunks allocated from the memory pool.
+ * All chunks previously allocated from the pool will be freed once the
+ * pool itself is destroyed. This would prevent memory leaks that haunt
+ * programmers for decades, and it provides additional performance
+ * advantage over traditional malloc/new operator.
+ *
+ * Even more, PJLIB's memory pool provides some additional usability and
+ * flexibility for applications:
+ * - memory leaks are easily traceable, since memory pool is assigned name,
+ * and application can inspect what pools currently active in the system.
+ * - by design, memory allocation from a pool is not thread safe. We assumed
+ * that a pool will be owned by a higher level object, and thread safety
+ * should be handled by that object. This enables very fast pool operations
+ * and prevents unnecessary locking operations,
+ * - by default, the memory pool API behaves more like C++ new operator,
+ * in that it will throw PJ_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION exception (see
+ * @ref PJ_EXCEPT) when memory chunk allocation fails. This enables failure
+ * handling to be done on more high level function (instead of checking
+ * the result of pj_pool_alloc() everytime). If application doesn't like
+ * this, the default behavior can be changed on global basis by supplying
+ * different policy to the pool factory.
+ * - any memory allocation backend allocator/deallocator may be used. By
+ * default, the policy uses malloc() and free() to manage the pool's block,
+ * but application may use different strategy, for example to allocate
+ * memory blocks from a globally static memory location.
+ *
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_PERFORMANCE_SUBSEC Performance
+ *
+ * The result of PJLIB's memory design and careful implementation is a
+ * memory allocation strategy that can speed-up the memory allocations
+ * and deallocations by up to <b>30 times</b> compared to standard
+ * malloc()/free() (more than 150 million allocations per second on a
+ * P4/3.0GHz Linux machine).
+ *
+ * (Note: your mileage may vary, of course. You can see how much PJLIB's
+ * pool improves the performance over malloc()/free() in your target
+ * system by running pjlib-test application).
+ *
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_CAVEATS_SUBSEC Caveats
+ *
+ * There are some caveats though!
+ *
+ * When creating pool, PJLIB requires applications to specify the initial
+ * pool size, and as soon as the pool is created, PJLIB allocates memory
+ * from the system by that size. Application designers MUST choose the
+ * initial pool size carefully, since choosing too big value will result in
+ * wasting system's memory.
+ *
+ * But the pool can grow. Application designer can specify how the
+ * pool will grow in size, by specifying the size increment when creating
+ * the pool.
+ *
+ * The pool, however, <b>cannot</b> shrink! Since there is <b>no</b>
+ * function to deallocate memory chunks, there is no way for the pool to
+ * release back unused memory to the system.
+ * Application designers must be aware that constant memory allocations
+ * from pool that has infinite life-time may cause the memory usage of
+ * the application to grow over time.
+ *
+ *
+ * \section PJ_POOL_USING_SEC Using Memory Pool
+ *
+ * This section describes how to use PJLIB's memory pool framework.
+ * As we hope the readers will witness, PJLIB's memory pool API is quite
+ * straightforward.
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_USING_F Create Pool Factory
+ * First, application needs to initialize a pool factory (this normally
+ * only needs to be done once in one application). PJLIB provides
+ * a pool factory implementation called caching pool (see @ref
+ * PJ_CACHING_POOL), and it is initialized by calling #pj_caching_pool_init().
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_USING_P Create The Pool
+ * Then application creates the pool object itself with #pj_pool_create(),
+ * specifying among other thing the pool factory where the pool should
+ * be created from, the pool name, initial size, and increment/expansion
+ * size.
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_USING_M Allocate Memory as Required
+ * Then whenever application needs to allocate dynamic memory, it would
+ * call #pj_pool_alloc(), #pj_pool_calloc(), or #pj_pool_zalloc() to
+ * allocate memory chunks from the pool.
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_USING_DP Destroy the Pool
+ * When application has finished with the pool, it should call
+ * #pj_pool_release() to release the pool object back to the factory.
+ * Depending on the types of the factory, this may release the memory back
+ * to the operating system.
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_USING_Dc Destroy the Pool Factory
+ * And finally, before application quites, it should deinitialize the
+ * pool factory, to make sure that all memory blocks allocated by the
+ * factory are released back to the operating system. After this, of
+ * course no more memory pool allocation can be requested.
+ *
+ * \subsection PJ_POOL_USING_EX Example
+ * Below is a sample complete program that utilizes PJLIB's memory pool.
+ *
+ * \code
+
+ #include <pjlib.h>
+
+ #define THIS_FILE "pool_sample.c"
+
+ static void my_perror(const char *title, pj_status_t status)
+ {
+ char errmsg[PJ_ERR_MSG_SIZE];
+
+ pj_strerror(status, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg));
+ PJ_LOG(1,(THIS_FILE, "%s: %s [status=%d]", title, errmsg, status));
+ }
+
+ static void pool_demo_1(pj_pool_factory *pfactory)
+ {
+ unsigned i;
+ pj_pool_t *pool;
+
+ // Must create pool before we can allocate anything
+ pool = pj_pool_create(pfactory, // the factory
+ "pool1", // pool's name
+ 4000, // initial size
+ 4000, // increment size
+ NULL); // use default callback.
+ if (pool == NULL) {
+ my_perror("Error creating pool", PJ_ENOMEM);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ // Demo: allocate some memory chunks
+ for (i=0; i<1000; ++i) {
+ void *p;
+
+ p = pj_pool_alloc(pool, (pj_rand()+1) % 512);
+
+ // Do something with p
+ ...
+
+ // Look! No need to free p!!
+ }
+
+ // Done with silly demo, must free pool to release all memory.
+ pj_pool_release(pool);
+ }
+
+ int main()
+ {
+ pj_caching_pool cp;
+ pj_status_t status;
+
+ // Must init PJLIB before anything else
+ status = pj_init();
+ if (status != PJ_SUCCESS) {
+ my_perror("Error initializing PJLIB", status);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ // Create the pool factory, in this case, a caching pool,
+ // using default pool policy.
+ pj_caching_pool_init(&cp, NULL, 1024*1024 );
+
+ // Do a demo
+ pool_demo_1(&cp.factory);
+
+ // Done with demos, destroy caching pool before exiting app.
+ pj_caching_pool_destroy(&cp);
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ \endcode
+ *
+ * More information about pool factory, the pool object, and caching pool
+ * can be found on the Module Links below.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * @defgroup PJ_POOL Memory Pool Object
+ * @ingroup PJ_POOL_GROUP
+ * @brief
+ * The memory pool is an opaque object created by pool factory.
+ * Application uses this object to request a memory chunk, by calling
+ * #pj_pool_alloc(), #pj_pool_calloc(), or #pj_pool_zalloc().
+ * When the application has finished using
+ * the pool, it must call #pj_pool_release() to free all the chunks previously
+ * allocated and release the pool back to the factory.
+ *
+ * A memory pool is initialized with an initial amount of memory, which is
+ * called a block. Pool can be configured to dynamically allocate more memory
+ * blocks when it runs out of memory.
+ *
+ * The pool doesn't keep track of individual memory allocations
+ * by user, and the user doesn't have to free these indidual allocations. This
+ * makes memory allocation simple and very fast. All the memory allocated from
+ * the pool will be destroyed when the pool itself is destroyed.
+ *
+ * \section PJ_POOL_THREADING_SEC More on Threading Policies
+ * - By design, memory allocation from a pool is not thread safe. We assumed
+ * that a pool will be owned by an object, and thread safety should be
+ * handled by that object. Thus these functions are not thread safe:
+ * - #pj_pool_alloc,
+ * - #pj_pool_calloc,
+ * - and other pool statistic functions.
+ * - Threading in the pool factory is decided by the policy set for the
+ * factory when it was created.
+ *
+ * \section PJ_POOL_EXAMPLES_SEC Examples
+ *
+ * For some sample codes on how to use the pool, please see:
+ * - @ref page_pjlib_pool_test
+ *
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The type for function to receive callback from the pool when it is unable
+ * to allocate memory. The elegant way to handle this condition is to throw
+ * exception, and this is what is expected by most of this library
+ * components.
+ */
+typedef void pj_pool_callback(pj_pool_t *pool, pj_size_t size);
+
+/**
+ * This class, which is used internally by the pool, describes a single
+ * block of memory from which user memory allocations will be allocated from.
+ */
+typedef struct pj_pool_block
+{
+ PJ_DECL_LIST_MEMBER(struct pj_pool_block); /**< List's prev and next. */
+ unsigned char *buf; /**< Start of buffer. */
+ unsigned char *cur; /**< Current alloc ptr. */
+ unsigned char *end; /**< End of buffer. */
+} pj_pool_block;
+
+
+/**
+ * This structure describes the memory pool. Only implementors of pool factory
+ * need to care about the contents of this structure.
+ */
+struct pj_pool_t
+{
+ PJ_DECL_LIST_MEMBER(struct pj_pool_t); /**< Standard list elements. */
+
+ /** Pool name */
+ char obj_name[PJ_MAX_OBJ_NAME];
+
+ /** Pool factory. */
+ pj_pool_factory *factory;
+
+ /** Data put by factory */
+ void *factory_data;
+
+ /** Current capacity allocated by the pool. */
+ pj_size_t capacity;
+
+ /** Size of memory block to be allocated when the pool runs out of memory */
+ pj_size_t increment_size;
+
+ /** List of memory blocks allcoated by the pool. */
+ pj_pool_block block_list;
+
+ /** The callback to be called when the pool is unable to allocate memory. */
+ pj_pool_callback *callback;
+
+};
+
+
+/**
+ * Guidance on how much memory required for initial pool administrative data.
+ */
+#define PJ_POOL_SIZE (sizeof(struct pj_pool_t))
+
+/**
+ * Pool memory alignment (must be power of 2).
+ */
+#ifndef PJ_POOL_ALIGNMENT
+# define PJ_POOL_ALIGNMENT 4
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * Create a new pool from the pool factory. This wrapper will call create_pool
+ * member of the pool factory.
+ *
+ * @param factory The pool factory.
+ * @param name The name to be assigned to the pool. The name should
+ * not be longer than PJ_MAX_OBJ_NAME (32 chars), or
+ * otherwise it will be truncated.
+ * @param initial_size The size of initial memory blocks taken by the pool.
+ * Note that the pool will take 68+20 bytes for
+ * administrative area from this block.
+ * @param increment_size the size of each additional blocks to be allocated
+ * when the pool is running out of memory. If user
+ * requests memory which is larger than this size, then
+ * an error occurs.
+ * Note that each time a pool allocates additional block,
+ * it needs PJ_POOL_SIZE more to store some
+ * administrative info.
+ * @param callback Callback to be called when error occurs in the pool.
+ * If this value is NULL, then the callback from pool
+ * factory policy will be used.
+ * Note that when an error occurs during pool creation,
+ * the callback itself is not called. Instead, NULL
+ * will be returned.
+ *
+ * @return The memory pool, or NULL.
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(pj_pool_t*) pj_pool_create(pj_pool_factory *factory,
+ const char *name,
+ pj_size_t initial_size,
+ pj_size_t increment_size,
+ pj_pool_callback *callback);
+
+/**
+ * Release the pool back to pool factory.
+ *
+ * @param pool Memory pool.
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(void) pj_pool_release( pj_pool_t *pool );
+
+/**
+ * Get pool object name.
+ *
+ * @param pool the pool.
+ *
+ * @return pool name as NULL terminated string.
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(const char *) pj_pool_getobjname( const pj_pool_t *pool );
+
+/**
+ * Reset the pool to its state when it was initialized.
+ * This means that if additional blocks have been allocated during runtime,
+ * then they will be freed. Only the original block allocated during
+ * initialization is retained. This function will also reset the internal
+ * counters, such as pool capacity and used size.
+ *
+ * @param pool the pool.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(void) pj_pool_reset( pj_pool_t *pool );
+
+
+/**
+ * Get the pool capacity, that is, the system storage that have been allocated
+ * by the pool, and have been used/will be used to allocate user requests.
+ * There's no guarantee that the returned value represent a single
+ * contiguous block, because the capacity may be spread in several blocks.
+ *
+ * @param pool the pool.
+ *
+ * @return the capacity.
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(pj_size_t) pj_pool_get_capacity( pj_pool_t *pool );
+
+/**
+ * Get the total size of user allocation request.
+ *
+ * @param pool the pool.
+ *
+ * @return the total size.
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(pj_size_t) pj_pool_get_used_size( pj_pool_t *pool );
+
+/**
+ * Allocate storage with the specified size from the pool.
+ * If there's no storage available in the pool, then the pool can allocate more
+ * blocks if the increment size is larger than the requested size.
+ *
+ * @param pool the pool.
+ * @param size the requested size.
+ *
+ * @return pointer to the allocated memory.
+ *
+ * @see PJ_POOL_ALLOC_T
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(void*) pj_pool_alloc( pj_pool_t *pool, pj_size_t size);
+
+/**
+ * Allocate storage from the pool, and initialize it to zero.
+ * This function behaves like pj_pool_alloc(), except that the storage will
+ * be initialized to zero.
+ *
+ * @param pool the pool.
+ * @param count the number of elements in the array.
+ * @param elem the size of individual element.
+ *
+ * @return pointer to the allocated memory.
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(void*) pj_pool_calloc( pj_pool_t *pool, pj_size_t count,
+ pj_size_t elem);
+
+
+/**
+ * Allocate storage from the pool and initialize it to zero.
+ *
+ * @param pool The pool.
+ * @param size The size to be allocated.
+ *
+ * @return Pointer to the allocated memory.
+ *
+ * @see PJ_POOL_ZALLOC_T
+ */
+PJ_INLINE(void*) pj_pool_zalloc(pj_pool_t *pool, pj_size_t size)
+{
+ return pj_pool_calloc(pool, 1, size);
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * This macro allocates memory from the pool and returns the instance of
+ * the specified type. It provides a stricker type safety than pj_pool_alloc()
+ * since the return value of this macro will be type-casted to the specified
+ * type.
+ *
+ * @param pool The pool
+ * @param type The type of object to be allocated
+ *
+ * @return Memory buffer of the specified type.
+ */
+#define PJ_POOL_ALLOC_T(pool,type) \
+ ((type*)pj_pool_alloc(pool, sizeof(type)))
+
+/**
+ * This macro allocates memory from the pool, zeroes the buffer, and
+ * returns the instance of the specified type. It provides a stricker type
+ * safety than pj_pool_zalloc() since the return value of this macro will be
+ * type-casted to the specified type.
+ *
+ * @param pool The pool
+ * @param type The type of object to be allocated
+ *
+ * @return Memory buffer of the specified type.
+ */
+#define PJ_POOL_ZALLOC_T(pool,type) \
+ ((type*)pj_pool_zalloc(pool, sizeof(type)))
+
+/*
+ * Internal functions
+ */
+PJ_IDECL(void*) pj_pool_alloc_from_block(pj_pool_block *block, pj_size_t size);
+PJ_DECL(void*) pj_pool_allocate_find(pj_pool_t *pool, unsigned size);
+
+
+
+/**
+ * @} // PJ_POOL
+ */
+
+/* **************************************************************************/
+/**
+ * @defgroup PJ_POOL_FACTORY Pool Factory and Policy
+ * @ingroup PJ_POOL_GROUP
+ * @brief
+ * A pool object must be created through a factory. A factory not only provides
+ * generic interface functions to create and release pool, but also provides
+ * strategy to manage the life time of pools. One sample implementation,
+ * \a pj_caching_pool, can be set to keep the pools released by application for
+ * future use as long as the total memory is below the limit.
+ *
+ * The pool factory interface declared in PJLIB is designed to be extensible.
+ * Application can define its own strategy by creating it's own pool factory
+ * implementation, and this strategy can be used even by existing library
+ * without recompilation.
+ *
+ * \section PJ_POOL_FACTORY_ITF Pool Factory Interface
+ * The pool factory defines the following interface:
+ * - \a policy: the memory pool factory policy.
+ * - \a create_pool(): create a new memory pool.
+ * - \a release_pool(): release memory pool back to factory.
+ *
+ * \section PJ_POOL_FACTORY_POL Pool Factory Policy.
+ *
+ * A pool factory only defines functions to create and release pool and how
+ * to manage pools, but the rest of the functionalities are controlled by
+ * policy. A pool policy defines:
+ * - how memory block is allocated and deallocated (the default implementation
+ * allocates and deallocate memory by calling malloc() and free()).
+ * - callback to be called when memory allocation inside a pool fails (the
+ * default implementation will throw PJ_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION exception).
+ * - concurrency when creating and releasing pool from/to the factory.
+ *
+ * A pool factory can be given different policy during creation to make
+ * it behave differently. For example, caching pool factory can be configured
+ * to allocate and deallocate from a static/contiguous/preallocated memory
+ * instead of using malloc()/free().
+ *
+ * What strategy/factory and what policy to use is not defined by PJLIB, but
+ * instead is left to application to make use whichever is most efficient for
+ * itself.
+ *
+ * The pool factory policy controls the behaviour of memory factories, and
+ * defines the following interface:
+ * - \a block_alloc(): allocate memory block from backend memory mgmt/system.
+ * - \a block_free(): free memory block back to backend memory mgmt/system.
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/* We unfortunately don't have support for factory policy options as now,
+ so we keep this commented at the moment.
+enum PJ_POOL_FACTORY_OPTION
+{
+ PJ_POOL_FACTORY_SERIALIZE = 1
+};
+*/
+
+/**
+ * This structure declares pool factory interface.
+ */
+typedef struct pj_pool_factory_policy
+{
+ /**
+ * Allocate memory block (for use by pool). This function is called
+ * by memory pool to allocate memory block.
+ *
+ * @param factory Pool factory.
+ * @param size The size of memory block to allocate.
+ *
+ * @return Memory block.
+ */
+ void* (*block_alloc)(pj_pool_factory *factory, pj_size_t size);
+
+ /**
+ * Free memory block.
+ *
+ * @param factory Pool factory.
+ * @param mem Memory block previously allocated by block_alloc().
+ * @param size The size of memory block.
+ */
+ void (*block_free)(pj_pool_factory *factory, void *mem, pj_size_t size);
+
+ /**
+ * Default callback to be called when memory allocation fails.
+ */
+ pj_pool_callback *callback;
+
+ /**
+ * Option flags.
+ */
+ unsigned flags;
+
+} pj_pool_factory_policy;
+
+/**
+ * \def PJ_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION
+ * This constant denotes the exception number that will be thrown by default
+ * memory factory policy when memory allocation fails.
+ *
+ * @see pj_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION()
+ */
+PJ_DECL_DATA(int) PJ_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION;
+
+/**
+ * Get #PJ_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION constant.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(int) pj_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION(void);
+
+/**
+ * This global variable points to default memory pool factory policy.
+ * The behaviour of the default policy is:
+ * - block allocation and deallocation use malloc() and free().
+ * - callback will raise PJ_NO_MEMORY_EXCEPTION exception.
+ * - access to pool factory is not serialized (i.e. not thread safe).
+ *
+ * @see pj_pool_factory_get_default_policy
+ */
+PJ_DECL_DATA(pj_pool_factory_policy) pj_pool_factory_default_policy;
+
+
+/**
+ * Get the default pool factory policy.
+ *
+ * @return the pool policy.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(const pj_pool_factory_policy*) pj_pool_factory_get_default_policy(void);
+
+
+/**
+ * This structure contains the declaration for pool factory interface.
+ */
+struct pj_pool_factory
+{
+ /**
+ * Memory pool policy.
+ */
+ pj_pool_factory_policy policy;
+
+ /**
+ * Create a new pool from the pool factory.
+ *
+ * @param factory The pool factory.
+ * @param name the name to be assigned to the pool. The name should
+ * not be longer than PJ_MAX_OBJ_NAME (32 chars), or
+ * otherwise it will be truncated.
+ * @param initial_size the size of initial memory blocks taken by the pool.
+ * Note that the pool will take 68+20 bytes for
+ * administrative area from this block.
+ * @param increment_size the size of each additional blocks to be allocated
+ * when the pool is running out of memory. If user
+ * requests memory which is larger than this size, then
+ * an error occurs.
+ * Note that each time a pool allocates additional block,
+ * it needs 20 bytes (equal to sizeof(pj_pool_block)) to
+ * store some administrative info.
+ * @param callback Cllback to be called when error occurs in the pool.
+ * Note that when an error occurs during pool creation,
+ * the callback itself is not called. Instead, NULL
+ * will be returned.
+ *
+ * @return the memory pool, or NULL.
+ */
+ pj_pool_t* (*create_pool)( pj_pool_factory *factory,
+ const char *name,
+ pj_size_t initial_size,
+ pj_size_t increment_size,
+ pj_pool_callback *callback);
+
+ /**
+ * Release the pool to the pool factory.
+ *
+ * @param factory The pool factory.
+ * @param pool The pool to be released.
+ */
+ void (*release_pool)( pj_pool_factory *factory, pj_pool_t *pool );
+
+ /**
+ * Dump pool status to log.
+ *
+ * @param factory The pool factory.
+ */
+ void (*dump_status)( pj_pool_factory *factory, pj_bool_t detail );
+
+ /**
+ * This is optional callback to be called by allocation policy when
+ * it allocates a new memory block. The factory may use this callback
+ * for example to keep track of the total number of memory blocks
+ * currently allocated by applications.
+ *
+ * @param factory The pool factory.
+ * @param size Size requested by application.
+ *
+ * @return MUST return PJ_TRUE, otherwise the block
+ * allocation is cancelled.
+ */
+ pj_bool_t (*on_block_alloc)(pj_pool_factory *factory, pj_size_t size);
+
+ /**
+ * This is optional callback to be called by allocation policy when
+ * it frees memory block. The factory may use this callback
+ * for example to keep track of the total number of memory blocks
+ * currently allocated by applications.
+ *
+ * @param factory The pool factory.
+ * @param size Size freed.
+ */
+ void (*on_block_free)(pj_pool_factory *factory, pj_size_t size);
+
+};
+
+/**
+ * This function is intended to be used by pool factory implementors.
+ * @param factory Pool factory.
+ * @param name Pool name.
+ * @param initial_size Initial size.
+ * @param increment_size Increment size.
+ * @param callback Callback.
+ * @return The pool object, or NULL.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(pj_pool_t*) pj_pool_create_int( pj_pool_factory *factory,
+ const char *name,
+ pj_size_t initial_size,
+ pj_size_t increment_size,
+ pj_pool_callback *callback);
+
+/**
+ * This function is intended to be used by pool factory implementors.
+ * @param pool The pool.
+ * @param name Pool name.
+ * @param increment_size Increment size.
+ * @param callback Callback function.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(void) pj_pool_init_int( pj_pool_t *pool,
+ const char *name,
+ pj_size_t increment_size,
+ pj_pool_callback *callback);
+
+/**
+ * This function is intended to be used by pool factory implementors.
+ * @param pool The memory pool.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(void) pj_pool_destroy_int( pj_pool_t *pool );
+
+
+/**
+ * Dump pool factory state.
+ * @param pf The pool factory.
+ * @param detail Detail state required.
+ */
+PJ_INLINE(void) pj_pool_factory_dump( pj_pool_factory *pf,
+ pj_bool_t detail )
+{
+ (*pf->dump_status)(pf, detail);
+}
+
+/**
+ * @} // PJ_POOL_FACTORY
+ */
+
+/* **************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * @defgroup PJ_CACHING_POOL Caching Pool Factory
+ * @ingroup PJ_POOL_GROUP
+ * @brief
+ * Caching pool is one sample implementation of pool factory where the
+ * factory can reuse memory to create a pool. Application defines what the
+ * maximum memory the factory can hold, and when a pool is released the
+ * factory decides whether to destroy the pool or to keep it for future use.
+ * If the total amount of memory in the internal cache is still within the
+ * limit, the factory will keep the pool in the internal cache, otherwise the
+ * pool will be destroyed, thus releasing the memory back to the system.
+ *
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Number of unique sizes, to be used as index to the free list.
+ * Each pool in the free list is organized by it's size.
+ */
+#define PJ_CACHING_POOL_ARRAY_SIZE 16
+
+/**
+ * Declaration for caching pool. Application doesn't normally need to
+ * care about the contents of this struct, it is only provided here because
+ * application need to define an instance of this struct (we can not allocate
+ * the struct from a pool since there is no pool factory yet!).
+ */
+struct pj_caching_pool
+{
+ /** Pool factory interface, must be declared first. */
+ pj_pool_factory factory;
+
+ /** Current factory's capacity, i.e. number of bytes that are allocated
+ * and available for application in this factory. The factory's
+ * capacity represents the size of all pools kept by this factory
+ * in it's free list, which will be returned to application when it
+ * requests to create a new pool.
+ */
+ pj_size_t capacity;
+
+ /** Maximum size that can be held by this factory. Once the capacity
+ * has exceeded @a max_capacity, further #pj_pool_release() will
+ * flush the pool. If the capacity is still below the @a max_capacity,
+ * #pj_pool_release() will save the pool to the factory's free list.
+ */
+ pj_size_t max_capacity;
+
+ /**
+ * Number of pools currently held by applications. This number gets
+ * incremented everytime #pj_pool_create() is called, and gets
+ * decremented when #pj_pool_release() is called.
+ */
+ pj_size_t used_count;
+
+ /**
+ * Total size of memory currently used by application.
+ */
+ pj_size_t used_size;
+
+ /**
+ * The maximum size of memory used by application throughout the life
+ * of the caching pool.
+ */
+ pj_size_t peak_used_size;
+
+ /**
+ * Lists of pools in the cache, indexed by pool size.
+ */
+ pj_list free_list[PJ_CACHING_POOL_ARRAY_SIZE];
+
+ /**
+ * List of pools currently allocated by applications.
+ */
+ pj_list used_list;
+
+ /**
+ * Internal pool.
+ */
+ char pool_buf[256 * (sizeof(long) / 4)];
+
+ /**
+ * Mutex.
+ */
+ pj_lock_t *lock;
+};
+
+
+
+/**
+ * Initialize caching pool.
+ *
+ * @param ch_pool The caching pool factory to be initialized.
+ * @param policy Pool factory policy.
+ * @param max_capacity The total capacity to be retained in the cache. When
+ * the pool is returned to the cache, it will be kept in
+ * recycling list if the total capacity of pools in this
+ * list plus the capacity of the pool is still below this
+ * value.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(void) pj_caching_pool_init( pj_caching_pool *ch_pool,
+ const pj_pool_factory_policy *policy,
+ pj_size_t max_capacity);
+
+
+/**
+ * Destroy caching pool, and release all the pools in the recycling list.
+ *
+ * @param ch_pool The caching pool.
+ */
+PJ_DECL(void) pj_caching_pool_destroy( pj_caching_pool *ch_pool );
+
+/**
+ * @} // PJ_CACHING_POOL
+ */
+
+# if PJ_FUNCTIONS_ARE_INLINED
+# include "pool_i.h"
+# endif
+
+PJ_END_DECL
+
+#endif /* __PJ_POOL_H__ */
+