[Oisf-devel] RFC: generic storage API, with host and flow implementations

[Victor Julien]

On 04/09/2013 11:18 AM, Victor Julien wrote:
> Eric and I have been working on a generic storage API. It's current
> iteration can be found at:
> https://github.com/inliniac/suricata/tree/dev-storage-api-v1.1
> 
> I think it's shaping up nicely. However, in general I still wonder if we
> should change the logic of the "Init" function ptr. Right now it behaves
> like "Alloc".
> 
> If we leave the alloc to the lower level implementation, we could
> prealloc memory there. Currently we just alloc an array of ptrs, but we
> could also choose to do alloc the actual memory needs.
> 
> Need a decision before we integrate it.
> 

It's my intention to merge this later this week:
https://github.com/inliniac/suricata/pull/455

I renamed the Init func ptr to Alloc, so it's now clear what it does.

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