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/** \file

    Bounded-index extensible hashing. The basic algorithm performs
    thread-safe constant-time lookups in the face of a rational number
    of hash collisions. The computed hash code h(k) must have
    reasonable statistics with respect to the key space. It won't do
    to have h(k) = 0 or 1, for all values of k.

    Each bucket in the power-of-two bucket array contains the index
    (in a private vppinfra memory heap) of the "backing store" for the
    bucket, as well as a size field. The size field (log2_pages)
    corresponds to 1, 2, 4, ... contiguous "pages" containing the
    (key,value) pairs in the bucket.

    When a single page fills, we allocate two contiguous pages.  We
    recompute h(k) for each (key,value) pair, using an additional bit
    to deal the (key, value) pairs into the "top" and "bottom" pages.

    At lookup time, we compute h(k), using lg(bucket-array-size) to
    pick the bucket. We read the bucket to find the base of the
    backing pages.  We use an additional log2_pages' worth of bits
    from h(k) to compute the offset of the page which will contain the
    (key,value) pair we're trying to find.
*/

/** template key/value backing page structure */
typedef struct clib_bihash_value
{
  union
  {

    clib_bihash_kv kvp[BIHASH_KVP_PER_PAGE]; /**< the actual key/value pairs */
    clib_bihash_value *next_free;  /**< used when a KVP page (or block thereof) is on a freelist */
  };
} clib_bihash_value_t
/** bihash bucket structure */
  typedef struct
{
  union
  {
    struct
    {
      u32 offset;  /**< backing page offset in the clib memory heap */
      u8 pad[3];   /**< log2 (size of the packing page block) */
      u8 log2_pages;
    };
    u64 as_u64;
  };
} clib_bihash_bucket_t;

/** A bounded index extensible hash table */
typedef struct
{
  clib_bihash_bucket_t *buckets;  /**< Hash bucket vector, power-of-two in size */
  volatile u32 *writer_lock;  /**< Writer lock, in its own cache line */
    BVT (clib_bihash_value) ** working_copies;
                                            /**< Working copies (various sizes), to avoid locking against readers */
  clib_bihash_bucket_t saved_bucket; /**< Saved bucket pointer */
  u32 nbuckets;                      /**< Number of hash buckets */
  u32 log2_nbuckets;                 /**< lg(nbuckets) */
  u8 *name;                          /**< hash table name */
    BVT (clib_bihash_value) ** freelists;
                                      /**< power of two freelist vector */
  void *mheap;  /**< clib memory heap */
} clib_bihash_t;

/** Get pointer to value page given its clib mheap offset */
static inline void *clib_bihash_get_value (clib_bihash * h, uword offset);

/** Get clib mheap offset given a pointer */
static inline uword clib_bihash_get_offset (clib_bihash * h, void *v);

/** initialize a bounded index extensible hash table

    @param h - the bi-hash table to initialize
    @param name - name of the hash table
    @param nbuckets - the number of buckets, will be rounded up to
a power of two
    @param memory_size - clib mheap size, in bytes
*/

void clib_bihash_init
  (clib_bihash * h, char *name, u32 nbuckets, uword memory_size);

/** Destroy a bounded index extensible hash table
    @param h - the bi-hash table to free
*/

void clib_bihash_free (clib_bihash * h);

/** Add or delete a (key,value) pair from a bi-hash table

    @param h - the bi-hash table to search
    @param add_v - the (key,value) pair to add
    @param is_add - add=1, delete=0
    @returns 0 on success, < 0 on error
    @note This function will replace an existing (key,value) pair if the
    new key matches an existing key
*/
int clib_bihash_add_del (clib_bihash * h, clib_bihash_kv * add_v, int is_add);


/** Search a bi-hash table

    @param h - the bi-hash table to search
    @param search_v - (key,value) pair containing the search key
    @param return_v - (key,value) pair which matches search_v.key
    @returns 0 on success (with return_v set), < 0 on error
*/
int clib_bihash_search (clib_bihash * h,
                        clib_bihash_kv * search_v, clib_bihash_kv * return_v);


/** Visit active (key,value) pairs in a bi-hash table

    @param h - the bi-hash table to search
    @param callback - function to call with each active (key,value) pair
    @param arg - arbitrary second argument passed to the callback function
    First argument is the (key,value) pair to visit
    @note Trying to supply a proper function prototype for the
    callback function appears to be a fool's errand.
*/
void clib_bihash_foreach_key_value_pair (clib_bihash * h,
                                         void *callback, void *arg);

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