[mythtv] Testers Wanted for New, ON-Deman Input Feature
David Engel
david at istwok.net
Mon Jan 8 16:51:10 UTC 2018
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 08:37:38PM +0000, John P Poet wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 9:39 AM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
>
> > The "Schedule as Group" feature added last year greatly improved the
> > scheduling performance of multirec configurations. Unfortunately, it
> > required the number of simultaneous recordings to be set high enough
> > to handle every recording load. If it was set too low, recordings
> > would be missed. I now have a change ready to address that
> > limitation.
> >
> > Instead of missing recordings, MythTV will now automatically add
> > multirec inputs to handle the load. However, this change adds new
> > locking creates the possibility of new deadlocks, especially when the
> > added inputs are on slave backends. Consequently, I'd like for this
> > change to get some wider testing before it goes into master.
> >
> > If you're interested and able to help out on the testing, please
> > checkout the devel/scheduler branch and give it a try. Please post
> > any feedback you have here. If all goes well, I'll commit to master
> > in a week or two.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> Hi David. Sorry I didn't get back with you sooner. I will take a look at
> this, and give it a try.
Do I have any other takers on this?
David
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