Hi Ezequiel >Hi John, > >On Thursday, April 29, 2021 14:56 -03, John Cox <jc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> >Hi Ezequiel, John, >> > >> >After creating extensive new compliance tests for this feature I am now >> >confident enough about the implementation. >> > >> >You can find it here: >> > >> >https://git.linuxtv.org/hverkuil/media_tree.git/log/?h=ctrl-refactor >> > >> >There are two items that I want to fix before I will post this: >> > >> >1) The new flag needs to be documented >> >2) I think there are some simplifications possible w.r.t. storing the >> > size of the new array, I want to look at that a bit more. >> > >> >In the meantime it would be great if some testing of this series can be >> >done with real drivers instead of just vivid. >> >> Well I finally managed to put together your patch (in 5.10), tweaked >> driver & ffmpeg to have a variable noof slice headers and it all seems >> to work well. With the code I have it doesn't give a significant >> improvement in performance over 1 slice at a time but that is probably >> because I have multithreaded userland code and take liberties with >> buffer returns from the driver that Ezequiel disaproves of (but my >> ffmpeg code is happy with). >> > >I don't think I have ever disapproved anything (and if I made it sound like that, it was a mistake). Quite the opposite, I am more than supportive to see get more drivers merged upstream. Yes - sorry - my mistake - I was thinking of one person and typed another. And in any case, even if I had the right name, that wasn't a constructive remark on my part. Please accept my apologies John Cox >Thanks! >Ezequiel