shared memory with pre allocate ipp memory

needle__brosh — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 08:15:18 GMT

Hi,

I'm working on windows platform.

I have one application (process) that generate data to a second application (different process). The second app is doing some heavy signal processing computation using the ipp functions. I would like to pre-allocate the shared memory with ippMalloc. Can anyone please help my understand how i do such thing ?

Thanks.

Hi,

Sergey_K_Intel — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 06:20:04 GMT

Hi,

There's no need to use ippMalloc for the shared memory, no magic in ippMalloc. For IPP needs you can use any memory, obtained by any way. ippMalloc is just a wrapper for system malloc to create aligned - 64 bit alignment - pointer.

It's like

void* my_ptr = malloc(my_size + 64) & (~63);

The only problem here is that you may not pass my_ptr to system's free function. 'Free' function requires original pointer:

void* orig_ptr = malloc(my_size + 64);
void* ptr_for_ipp = orig_ptr & (~63);
...
free(orig_ptr);

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shared memory with pre allocate ipp memory

Hi,