/* cache.c -- routines to implement a generic, list(3)-based cache package. * * Last edited: Tue Jul 28 15:41:47 1992 by bcs (Bradley C. Spatz) on wasp * * Copyright (C) 1992, Bradley C. Spatz, bcs@ufl.edu * * 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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. * * * We define the following routines here: * * CACHE *cache_init(max_elements) * char *cache_enter(cache, data, bytes, removed) * char *cache_check(cache, data, match) * void cache_free(cache, dealloc) * * for * * CACHE *cache; * char *data; * int max_elements, max_size, bytes; * char **removed; * int match(data, curr) * char *data; * char *curr; * void dealloc(data) * char *data; * * We base this package on the list(3) package. * * Keep a data structure that is essentially a list. We'll add new * elements to the front of the list and remove old elements from the end * of the list. We'll optimize searches for MRU (Most Recently Used) and * we'll dispose of elements when we need space by using LRU. Finally, * we'll always promote the element on a hit to the front of the list. * * We'll allow the user to control the size of the cache in terms of * cache elements. This limit will be determined at cache creation. */ static char brag[] = "$$Version: cache " "PACKAGE_VERSION" " Copyright (C) 1992 Bradley C. Spatz"; #include #include #include "cache.h" CACHE *cache_init(int max_elements) { CACHE *new_cache; /* Allocate, initialize, and return a new cache. Return NULL if * the malloc or list initialization fails. */ if ((new_cache = (CACHE *) malloc(sizeof(CACHE))) == NULL) { return(NULL); } new_cache->max_elements = max_elements; if ((new_cache->list = list_init()) == NULL) { /* The list creation fragged, so release the cache descriptor. */ free(new_cache); return(NULL); } return(new_cache); } void *cache_enter(CACHE *cache, void *data, int bytes, void **removed) { char *new_element; /* Add a new element to the front of our list. This is easy, because * we're using the list(3) package; our intentions exactly. * Try and add the new element. If that succeeds, then check for a * full cache. If full, remove the element at the rear of the list. * We return a pointer to the newly inserted element or NULL if the * insert failed. We also return a pointer to the removed element * if we did indeed remove one. */ *removed = NULL; new_element = list_insert_before(cache->list, data, bytes); if (new_element != NULL) { if (list_size(cache->list) > cache->max_elements) { *removed = (char *) list_remove_rear(cache->list); } } return(new_element); } void *cache_check(CACHE *cache, void *data, cache_match_func_t match) { char *found; /* Check for an empty cache. */ if (list_size(cache->list) == 0) { return(NULL); } /* Ok. Search the list for the element, starting from the front * of our list. If the traversal finds the element, then promote it to * the front if it's not already there, and return a pointer to the element. * Otherwise, return NULL. In either case, make sure to reset the * current element pointer back to the front of the list. */ if (list_traverse(cache->list, data, match, (LIST_FRNT | LIST_FORW | LIST_ALTR)) == LIST_OK) { /* We found what we're looking for. */ if (list_curr(cache->list) != list_front(cache->list)) { fprintf(stderr, "cache_check: moving found to front.\n"); found = (char *) list_remove_curr(cache->list); list_mvfront(cache->list); list_insert_before(cache->list, found, 0); return(found); } else { return(list_front(cache->list)); } } else { /* We did not find the element. */ list_mvfront(cache->list); return(NULL); } } void cache_free(CACHE *cache, cache_dealloc_func_t dealloc) { /* First free up the list, and then the cache descriptor. */ list_free(cache->list, dealloc); free(cache); }