[mythtv] Testers Wanted for New, ON-Deman Input Feature
Mark Perkins
perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 9 12:32:42 UTC 2018
On 9 January 2018 3:21:40 am David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> 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
I should be able to test. Are there limitations on the types of tuners this
will work with?
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