Re: [client] streaming: Fix a race condition in the GStreamer frame display queue

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Hey,

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:07:49PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote:
> When a frame is late we schedule its display right away with
> g_timeout_add(0, ...). This can result in display_frame() being called
> before g_timeout_add() returns. This would cause the timer_id being
> reset before schedule_frame() had set it so that it would then never be
> reset. So from that point schedule_frame() would always think a frame
> was being displayed and thus would not schedule any more frames
> resulting in a video freeze.
> display_frame() now takes the queues mutex before resetting timer_id
> eliminating the race.

Looks good to me, I think I'd explicitly mention the involved threads in
the commit log
"When a frame is late, we schedule its display right away with
g_timeout_add(0, ...). This scheduling is done in one of the GStreamer
thread, and the display_frame() callback will be called from the main
thread. This can result ..."

Acked-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Christophe

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