From: Tudor Bosman <tudorb@fb.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:52:38 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add an allocate() member function on IOBufQueue
X-Git-Tag: v0.22.0~1260
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=62072424464bf9831aa899f23484d7b8c54daac6;p=folly.git

Add an allocate() member function on IOBufQueue

Summary: Function is documented in the header.

Reviewed By: soren@fb.com

FB internal diff: D494315
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diff --git a/folly/experimental/io/IOBufQueue.h b/folly/experimental/io/IOBufQueue.h
index 7c25c621..283cd3ac 100644
--- a/folly/experimental/io/IOBufQueue.h
+++ b/folly/experimental/io/IOBufQueue.h
@@ -114,6 +114,16 @@ class IOBufQueue {
    */
   void postallocate(uint32_t n);
 
+  /**
+   * Obtain a writable block of n contiguous bytes, allocating more space
+   * if necessary, and mark it as used.  The caller can fill it later.
+   */
+  void* allocate(uint32_t n) {
+    void* p = preallocate(n, n).first;
+    postallocate(n);
+    return p;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Split off the first n bytes of the queue into a separate IOBuf chain,
    * and transfer ownership of the new chain to the caller.  The IOBufQueue