shared memory with pre allocate ipp memory

[needle__brosh]

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. 

[Sergey_K_Intel]

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);