+/**
+ * Creates a fifo chunk in the current heap
+ */
+svm_fifo_chunk_t *
+svm_fifo_chunk_alloc (u32 size)
+{
+ svm_fifo_chunk_t *c;
+ u32 rounded_size;
+
+ /* round chunk size to the next highest power-of-two */
+ rounded_size = (1 << (max_log2 (size)));
+ c = clib_mem_alloc_aligned_or_null (sizeof (*c) + rounded_size,
+ CLIB_CACHE_LINE_BYTES);
+ if (c == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ clib_memset (c, 0, sizeof (*c));
+ c->length = rounded_size;
+ return c;
+}
+