Metall  v0.27
A persistent memory allocator for data-centric analytics
offset_pointer.cpp

This is an example of how to use offset_pointer.

// Copyright 2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other Metall
// Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
// This is an example shows how to store pointers in persistent memory using the
// offset pointer
#include <iostream>
// metall::offset_ptr is just an alias of offset_ptr in Boost.Interprocess
// https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/doc/html/interprocess/offset_ptr.html
using int_offset_prt = metall::offset_ptr<int>;
int main() {
{
metall::manager manager(metall::create_only, "/tmp/datastore");
// Allocate a simple array in persistent memory
int *array = static_cast<int *>(manager.allocate(10 * sizeof(int)));
array[0] = 1;
array[1] = 2;
// Allocate an offset pointer with key 'ptr' and initialize its value with
// the address of 'array'
[[maybe_unused]] int_offset_prt *ptr =
manager.construct<int_offset_prt>("ptr")(array);
}
{
metall::manager manager(metall::open_only, "/tmp/datastore");
int_offset_prt *ptr = manager.find<int_offset_prt>("ptr").first;
// metall::to_raw_pointer extracts a raw pointer from metall::offset_ptr
// If a raw pointer is given, it just returns the address the given pointer
// points to
int *array = metall::to_raw_pointer(*ptr);
std::cout << array[0] << std::endl; // Print 1
std::cout << array[1] << std::endl; // Print 2
// Deallocate the array
manager.deallocate(metall::to_raw_pointer(*ptr));
*ptr = nullptr;
// Destroy the offset pointer object
manager.destroy<int_offset_prt>("ptr");
}
return 0;
}
A generalized Metall manager class.
Definition: basic_manager.hpp:31
int main()
Definition: jgraph.cpp:24
basic_manager<> manager
Default Metall manager class which is an alias of basic_manager with the default template parameters.
Definition: metall.hpp:20
boost::interprocess::offset_ptr< T > offset_ptr
Holds an offset between the address pointing at and itself.
Definition: offset_ptr.hpp:17