[mythtv] [patch] Fix for sluggish pause

[David Engel]

Take two, with patches attached!

David

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:03:56PM -0600, David Engel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:55:07AM -0500, Doug Larrick wrote:
> > David Engel wrote:
> > >That's the problem!  Try changing the decoder_lock from a QMutext to a
> > >pthread_mutex_t and see if that helps.  I suspect it will, and will
> > >also get rid of the sched_yield which I didn't like anyway.  If you
> > >can't make the change, I will do it tonight.
> > 
> > I'll give it a try.  I might be able to get to this tonight.
> 
> Well, pthread_mutex_t seems to have the same problem as QMutex in that
> a precess already waiting doesn't get priority over a process that
> releases, yields and reacquires. :(  IOW, the sched_yield is stil needed
> on UP and probably won't help much on SMP.  You can try mutex.patch for
> yourself if you like.
> 
> getframe.patch partially implements my return early from NVP::GetFrame
> suggestion.  It's for testing only, but please give it a try.  If it
> works OK, I'll flesh it out.
> 
> David
> -- 
> David Engel
> gigem at comcast.net
> 

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David Engel
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