| .\" -*- nroff -*- |
| .\" Licensed under the OpenIB.org BSD license (FreeBSD Variant) - See COPYING.md |
| .\" |
| .TH UMAD_ALLOC 3 "May 21, 2007" "OpenIB" "OpenIB Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH "NAME" |
| umad_alloc \- allocate memory for umad buffers |
| .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
| .nf |
| .B #include <infiniband/umad.h> |
| .sp |
| .BI "void * umad_alloc(int " "num" ", size_t " "size"); |
| .fi |
| .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| .B umad_alloc() |
| allocates memory for an array of |
| .I num\fR |
| umad buffers of |
| .I size |
| bytes\fR. |
| Note that |
| .I size\fR |
| should include the |
| .B umad_size() |
| plus the length (MAD_BLOCK_SIZE for normal MADs or the length returned from |
| .B umad_recv() |
| for RMPP MADs). |
| .SH "RETURN VALUE" |
| .B umad_alloc() |
| returns NULL if out of memory. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR umad_free (3) |
| .SH "AUTHOR" |
| .TP |
| Hal Rosenstock <halr@voltaire.com> |
