[mythtv] Testers Wanted for New, ON-Deman Input Feature

[David Engel]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 10:37:55AM -0600, David Engel 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.

FYI, these changes are now in master.

David
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David Engel
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