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: sta...@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>
---
lib/librte_ring/rte_ring.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
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
--
2.7.4
