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From: David Hawkins <dwh@ovro•caltech.edu>
To: "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys•net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Circular queue
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:55:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A8FC1F.5070807@ovro.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A5B5BA.2080707@dlasys.net>

David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:
>     Is there a standard linux datastructure and routines to manage
> circular queues ?
> 
>     I have a device that is not fundimentally different from a serial
> character device
>     except it is faster and the fundimental data type is 36 bits large.
> 
>     I have coded my own routines to setup and maintain a simple circular
> queue,
>     but I was hoping that there might be something more standard that
> already exists.
> 
>     Anyone know of anything ?

Hi David,

Have you looked at the linked-list support? You can use it
for a circular queue.

I just copied the following comments from some driver examples
I wrote a while back:

http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/correlator/software/driver_design.tar.gz
http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/correlator/pdf/LNX-723-Hawkins.pdf

  simple_page_buffer.c

  *-----------------------------------------------------------------
  * References:
  * [1] "Linux device drivers", 3rd Ed, J. Corbet, A. Rubini,
  *      G. Kroah-Hartman, 2005
  * [2] "Linux kernel development", 2nd Ed., R. Love.
  *-----------------------------------------------------------------
  */

  * For details on linked-lists, see p295 [1] and p345 [2].

I didn't look at the code again, but I'm pretty sure I used the
linked list for a circular buffer.

Cheers
Dave

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-26 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-24  8:18 Circular queue David H. Lynch Jr.
2007-07-25  6:26 ` Misbah khan
2007-07-26 19:55 ` David Hawkins [this message]

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