Re: Dynamic array control support: please test!

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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




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