Re: [PATCH v9 4/6] media: uvcvideo: Allow hw clock updates with buffers not full

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Hi Ricardo,

Thank you for the patch.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 02:30:15PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> With UVC 1.5 we get as little as one clock sample per frame. Which means
> that it takes 32 frames to move from the software timestamp to the
> hardware timestamp method.
> 
> This results in abrupt changes in the timestamping after 32 frames (~1
> second), resulting in noticeable artifacts when used for encoding.
> 
> With this patch we modify the update algorithm to work with whatever
> amount of values are available.
> 
> Tested-by: HungNien Chen <hn.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> index 4d566edb73e7..6d0243ea0e07 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> @@ -754,10 +754,10 @@ void uvc_video_clock_update(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&clock->lock, flags);
>  
> -	if (clock->count < clock->size)
> +	if (clock->count < 2)
>  		goto done;
>  
> -	first = &clock->samples[clock->head];
> +	first = &clock->samples[(clock->head - clock->count + clock->size) % clock->size];
>  	last = &clock->samples[(clock->head - 1 + clock->size) % clock->size];
>  
>  	/* First step, PTS to SOF conversion. */
> @@ -772,6 +772,17 @@ void uvc_video_clock_update(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
>  	if (y2 < y1)
>  		y2 += 2048 << 16;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Have at least 1/4 of a second of timestamps before we
> +	 * try to do any calculation. Otherwise we do not have enough
> +	 * precision. This value was determined by running Android CTS
> +	 * on different devices.

Either a blank line for a new paragraph, or no line break.

> +	 * Dev_sof runs at 1KHz, and we have a fixed point precision of

s/Dev_sof/dev_sof/

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> +	 * 16 bits.
> +	 */
> +	if ((y2 - y1) < ( (1000 / 4) << 16))
> +		goto done;
> +
>  	y = (u64)(y2 - y1) * (1ULL << 31) + (u64)y1 * (u64)x2
>  	  - (u64)y2 * (u64)x1;
>  	y = div_u64(y, x2 - x1);
> 

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart




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