vlib: add vlib_buffer_free_from_ring

Change-Id: I63f7b14cd63eac9e64cace5d941190096ad148dc
Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h b/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
index cda44d6aa20..6ea804f8ec4 100644
--- a/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
+++ b/src/vlib/buffer_funcs.h
@@ -433,6 +433,32 @@ vlib_buffer_free_one (vlib_main_t * vm, u32 buffer_index)
   vlib_buffer_free (vm, &buffer_index, /* n_buffers */ 1);
 }
 
+/** \brief Free buffers from ring
+
+    @param vm - (vlib_main_t *) vlib main data structure pointer
+    @param buffers - (u32 * ) buffer index ring
+    @param start - (u32) first slot in the ring
+    @param ring_size - (u32) ring size
+    @param n_buffers - (u32) number of buffers
+*/
+always_inline void
+vlib_buffer_free_from_ring (vlib_main_t * vm, u32 * ring, u32 start,
+			    u32 ring_size, u32 n_buffers)
+{
+  ASSERT (n_buffers <= ring_size);
+
+  if (PREDICT_TRUE (start + n_buffers <= ring_size))
+    {
+      vlib_buffer_free (vm, ring + start, n_buffers);
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      vlib_buffer_free (vm, ring + start, ring_size - start);
+      vlib_buffer_free (vm, ring, n_buffers - (ring_size - start));
+    }
+}
+
+
 /* Add/delete buffer free lists. */
 vlib_buffer_free_list_index_t vlib_buffer_create_free_list (vlib_main_t * vm,
 							    u32 n_data_bytes,