xemu/include/qemu/page_cache.h
Orit Wasserman 9fb26641ab Add cache handling functions
Add MRU page cache mechanism.
The page are accessed by their address.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Hudzia <benoit.hudzia@sap.com>
Signed-off-by: Petter Svard <petters@cs.umu.se>
Signed-off-by: Aidan Shribman <aidan.shribman@sap.com>
Signed-off-by: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2012-08-08 13:51:12 +02:00

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/*
* Page cache for QEMU
* The cache is base on a hash of the page address
*
* Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates
*
* Authors:
* Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
* See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
*
*/
#ifndef PAGE_CACHE_H
#define PAGE_CACHE_H
/* Page cache for storing guest pages */
typedef struct PageCache PageCache;
/**
* cache_init: Initialize the page cache
*
*
* Returns new allocated cache or NULL on error
*
* @cache pointer to the PageCache struct
* @num_pages: cache maximal number of cached pages
* @page_size: cache page size
*/
PageCache *cache_init(int64_t num_pages, unsigned int page_size);
/**
* cache_fini: free all cache resources
* @cache pointer to the PageCache struct
*/
void cache_fini(PageCache *cache);
/**
* cache_is_cached: Checks to see if the page is cached
*
* Returns %true if page is cached
*
* @cache pointer to the PageCache struct
* @addr: page addr
*/
bool cache_is_cached(const PageCache *cache, uint64_t addr);
/**
* get_cached_data: Get the data cached for an addr
*
* Returns pointer to the data cached or NULL if not cached
*
* @cache pointer to the PageCache struct
* @addr: page addr
*/
uint8_t *get_cached_data(const PageCache *cache, uint64_t addr);
/**
* cache_insert: insert the page into the cache. the previous value will be overwritten
*
* @cache pointer to the PageCache struct
* @addr: page address
* @pdata: pointer to the page
*/
void cache_insert(PageCache *cache, uint64_t addr, uint8_t *pdata);
/**
* cache_resize: resize the page cache. In case of size reduction the extra
* pages will be freed
*
* Returns -1 on error new cache size on success
*
* @cache pointer to the PageCache struct
* @num_pages: new page cache size (in pages)
*/
int64_t cache_resize(PageCache *cache, int64_t num_pages);
#endif