pthread.c

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2004 Roman Shaposhnik
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Alexander Strange (astrange@ithinksw.com)
 *
 * Many thanks to Steven M. Schultz for providing clever ideas and
 * to Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> for writing initial
 * implementation.
 *
 * This file is part of FFmpeg.
 *
 * FFmpeg is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * FFmpeg is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with FFmpeg; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
 */
 
/**
 * @file
 * Multithreading support functions
 * @see doc/multithreading.txt
 */
 
#include "libavutil/thread.h"
 
#include "avcodec.h"
#include "codec_internal.h"
#include "pthread_internal.h"
#include "thread.h"
 
/**
 * Set the threading algorithms used.
 *
 * Threading requires more than one thread.
 * Frame threading requires entire frames to be passed to the codec,
 * and introduces extra decoding delay, so is incompatible with low_delay.
 *
 * @param avctx The context.
 */
static void validate_thread_parameters(AVCodecContext *avctx)
{
    int frame_threading_supported = (avctx->codec->capabilities & AV_CODEC_CAP_FRAME_THREADS)
                                && !(avctx->flags  & AV_CODEC_FLAG_LOW_DELAY)
                                && !(avctx->flags2 & AV_CODEC_FLAG2_CHUNKS);
    if (avctx->thread_count == 1) {
        avctx->active_thread_type = 0;
    } else if (frame_threading_supported && (avctx->thread_type & FF_THREAD_FRAME)) {
        avctx->active_thread_type = FF_THREAD_FRAME;
    } else if (avctx->codec->capabilities & AV_CODEC_CAP_SLICE_THREADS &&
               avctx->thread_type & FF_THREAD_SLICE) {
        avctx->active_thread_type = FF_THREAD_SLICE;
    } else if (!(ffcodec(avctx->codec)->caps_internal & FF_CODEC_CAP_AUTO_THREADS)) {
        avctx->thread_count       = 1;
        avctx->active_thread_type = 0;
    }
 
    if (avctx->thread_count > MAX_AUTO_THREADS)
        av_log(avctx, AV_LOG_WARNING,
               "Application has requested %d threads. Using a thread count greater than %d is not recommended.\n",
               avctx->thread_count, MAX_AUTO_THREADS);
}
 
int ff_thread_init(AVCodecContext *avctx)
{
    validate_thread_parameters(avctx);
 
    if (avctx->active_thread_type&FF_THREAD_SLICE)
        return ff_slice_thread_init(avctx);
    else if (avctx->active_thread_type&FF_THREAD_FRAME)
        return ff_frame_thread_init(avctx);
 
    return 0;
}
 
void ff_thread_free(AVCodecContext *avctx)
{
    if (avctx->active_thread_type&FF_THREAD_FRAME)
        ff_frame_thread_free(avctx, avctx->thread_count);
    else
        ff_slice_thread_free(avctx);
}
 
av_cold void ff_pthread_free(void *obj, const unsigned offsets[])
{
    unsigned cnt = *(unsigned*)((char*)obj + offsets[0]);
    const unsigned *cur_offset = offsets;
 
    *(unsigned*)((char*)obj + offsets[0]) = 0;
 
    for (; *(++cur_offset) != THREAD_SENTINEL && cnt; cnt--)
        pthread_mutex_destroy((pthread_mutex_t*)((char*)obj + *cur_offset));
    for (; *(++cur_offset) != THREAD_SENTINEL && cnt; cnt--)
        pthread_cond_destroy ((pthread_cond_t *)((char*)obj + *cur_offset));
}
 
av_cold int ff_pthread_init(void *obj, const unsigned offsets[])
{
    const unsigned *cur_offset = offsets;
    unsigned cnt = 0;
    int err;
 
#define PTHREAD_INIT_LOOP(type)                                               \
    for (; *(++cur_offset) != THREAD_SENTINEL; cnt++) {                       \
        pthread_ ## type ## _t *dst = (void*)((char*)obj + *cur_offset);      \
        err = pthread_ ## type ## _init(dst, NULL);                           \
        if (err) {                                                            \
            err = AVERROR(err);                                               \
            goto fail;                                                        \
        }                                                                     \
    }
    PTHREAD_INIT_LOOP(mutex)
    PTHREAD_INIT_LOOP(cond)
 
fail:
    *(unsigned*)((char*)obj + offsets[0]) = cnt;
    return err;
}