[mythtv-commits] Ticket #8812: RingBuffer has a number of thread safety issues

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#8812: RingBuffer has a number of thread safety issues
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 Reporter:  danielk           |           Owner:  danielk   
     Type:  defect            |          Status:  assigned  
 Priority:  minor             |       Milestone:  0.24      
Component:  MythTV - General  |         Version:  Trunk Head
 Severity:  medium            |      Resolution:            
 Keywords:                    |   Ticket locked:  0         
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Changes (by danielk):

  * owner:  => danielk
  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 This adds back more locks than in the first version of the patch so that
 the locking for reads from the buffer can be relaxed to
 rwlock.lockForRead() allowing the reads from the buffer to happen while
 reads from the disk or other medium is in progress. The performance should
 now be as good or better than before. The multitude of QWaitConditions has
 also been reduced to just one wait condition, which simplifies the code a
 bit and allows performance to be improved.

 The two locks that were added can probably be eliminated using QAtomicInt,
 but it has a complicated API and several means to shoot yourself in the
 foot. Considering the mess that was made of RingBuffer in just a few years
 I would like to keep this as simple as possible.

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