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author | Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net> | 2013-01-20 08:03:13 +0100 |
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committer | Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net> | 2013-03-08 07:33:28 +0100 |
commit | 1cec0624d0e6f48590283a57169b58b9fe8449d3 (patch) | |
tree | 47cf0e154245654e523e9b29cda8f77fb89f9090 /libavutil | |
parent | 8e401dbe90cc77b1f3067a917d9fa48cefa3fcdb (diff) | |
download | ffmpeg-1cec0624d0e6f48590283a57169b58b9fe8449d3.tar.gz |
AVBuffer: add a new API for buffer pools
Diffstat (limited to 'libavutil')
-rw-r--r-- | libavutil/buffer.c | 143 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | libavutil/buffer.h | 70 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | libavutil/buffer_internal.h | 32 |
3 files changed, 245 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/buffer.c b/libavutil/buffer.c index b5e92c9f14..2b38081e1d 100644 --- a/libavutil/buffer.c +++ b/libavutil/buffer.c @@ -192,3 +192,146 @@ int av_buffer_realloc(AVBufferRef **pbuf, int size) buf->buffer->size = buf->size = size; return 0; } + +AVBufferPool *av_buffer_pool_init(int size, AVBufferRef* (*alloc)(int size)) +{ + AVBufferPool *pool = av_mallocz(sizeof(*pool)); + if (!pool) + return NULL; + + pool->size = size; + pool->alloc = alloc ? alloc : av_buffer_alloc; + + avpriv_atomic_int_set(&pool->refcount, 1); + + return pool; +} + +/* + * This function gets called when the pool has been uninited and + * all the buffers returned to it. + */ +static void buffer_pool_free(AVBufferPool *pool) +{ + while (pool->pool) { + BufferPoolEntry *buf = pool->pool; + pool->pool = buf->next; + + buf->free(buf->opaque, buf->data); + av_freep(&buf); + } + av_freep(&pool); +} + +void av_buffer_pool_uninit(AVBufferPool **ppool) +{ + AVBufferPool *pool; + + if (!ppool || !*ppool) + return; + pool = *ppool; + *ppool = NULL; + + if (!avpriv_atomic_int_add_and_fetch(&pool->refcount, -1)) + buffer_pool_free(pool); +} + +/* remove the whole buffer list from the pool and return it */ +static BufferPoolEntry *get_pool(AVBufferPool *pool) +{ + BufferPoolEntry *cur = NULL, *last = NULL; + + do { + FFSWAP(BufferPoolEntry*, cur, last); + cur = avpriv_atomic_ptr_cas((void * volatile *)&pool->pool, last, NULL); + if (!cur) + return NULL; + } while (cur != last); + + return cur; +} + +static void add_to_pool(BufferPoolEntry *buf) +{ + AVBufferPool *pool; + BufferPoolEntry *cur, *end = buf; + + if (!buf) + return; + pool = buf->pool; + + while (end->next) + end = end->next; + + while ((cur = avpriv_atomic_ptr_cas((void * volatile *)&pool->pool, NULL, buf))) { + /* pool is not empty, retrieve it and append it to our list */ + cur = get_pool(pool); + end->next = cur; + while (end->next) + end = end->next; + } +} + +static void pool_release_buffer(void *opaque, uint8_t *data) +{ + BufferPoolEntry *buf = opaque; + AVBufferPool *pool = buf->pool; + add_to_pool(buf); + if (!avpriv_atomic_int_add_and_fetch(&pool->refcount, -1)) + buffer_pool_free(pool); +} + +/* allocate a new buffer and override its free() callback so that + * it is returned to the pool on free */ +static AVBufferRef *pool_alloc_buffer(AVBufferPool *pool) +{ + BufferPoolEntry *buf; + AVBufferRef *ret; + + ret = pool->alloc(pool->size); + if (!ret) + return NULL; + + buf = av_mallocz(sizeof(*buf)); + if (!buf) { + av_buffer_unref(&ret); + return NULL; + } + + buf->data = ret->buffer->data; + buf->opaque = ret->buffer->opaque; + buf->free = ret->buffer->free; + buf->pool = pool; + + ret->buffer->opaque = buf; + ret->buffer->free = pool_release_buffer; + + avpriv_atomic_int_add_and_fetch(&pool->refcount, 1); + + return ret; +} + +AVBufferRef *av_buffer_pool_get(AVBufferPool *pool) +{ + AVBufferRef *ret; + BufferPoolEntry *buf; + + /* check whether the pool is empty */ + buf = get_pool(pool); + if (!buf) + return pool_alloc_buffer(pool); + + /* keep the first entry, return the rest of the list to the pool */ + add_to_pool(buf->next); + buf->next = NULL; + + ret = av_buffer_create(buf->data, pool->size, pool_release_buffer, + buf, 0); + if (!ret) { + add_to_pool(buf); + return NULL; + } + avpriv_atomic_int_add_and_fetch(&pool->refcount, 1); + + return ret; +} diff --git a/libavutil/buffer.h b/libavutil/buffer.h index 843dfbe24a..e348c6e019 100644 --- a/libavutil/buffer.h +++ b/libavutil/buffer.h @@ -194,4 +194,74 @@ int av_buffer_realloc(AVBufferRef **buf, int size); * @} */ +/** + * @defgroup lavu_bufferpool AVBufferPool + * @ingroup lavu_data + * + * @{ + * AVBufferPool is an API for a lock-free thread-safe pool of AVBuffers. + * + * Frequently allocating and freeing large buffers may be slow. AVBufferPool is + * meant to solve this in cases when the caller needs a set of buffers of the + * same size (the most obvious use case being buffers for raw video or audio + * frames). + * + * At the beginning, the user must call av_buffer_pool_init() to create the + * buffer pool. Then whenever a buffer is needed, call av_buffer_pool_get() to + * get a reference to a new buffer, similar to av_buffer_alloc(). This new + * reference works in all aspects the same way as the one created by + * av_buffer_alloc(). However, when the last reference to this buffer is + * unreferenced, it is returned to the pool instead of being freed and will be + * reused for subsequent av_buffer_pool_get() calls. + * + * When the caller is done with the pool and no longer needs to allocate any new + * buffers, av_buffer_pool_uninit() must be called to mark the pool as freeable. + * Once all the buffers are released, it will automatically be freed. + * + * Allocating and releasing buffers with this API is thread-safe as long as + * either the default alloc callback is used, or the user-supplied one is + * thread-safe. + */ + +/** + * The buffer pool. This structure is opaque and not meant to be accessed + * directly. It is allocated with av_buffer_pool_init() and freed with + * av_buffer_pool_uninit(). + */ +typedef struct AVBufferPool AVBufferPool; + +/** + * Allocate and initialize a buffer pool. + * + * @param size size of each buffer in this pool + * @param alloc a function that will be used to allocate new buffers when the + * pool is empty. May be NULL, then the default allocator will be used + * (av_buffer_alloc()). + * @return newly created buffer pool on success, NULL on error. + */ +AVBufferPool *av_buffer_pool_init(int size, AVBufferRef* (*alloc)(int size)); + +/** + * Mark the pool as being available for freeing. It will actually be freed only + * once all the allocated buffers associated with the pool are released. Thus it + * is safe to call this function while some of the allocated buffers are still + * in use. + * + * @param pool pointer to the pool to be freed. It will be set to NULL. + * @see av_buffer_pool_can_uninit() + */ +void av_buffer_pool_uninit(AVBufferPool **pool); + +/** + * Allocate a new AVBuffer, reusing an old buffer from the pool when available. + * This function may be called simultaneously from multiple threads. + * + * @return a reference to the new buffer on success, NULL on error. + */ +AVBufferRef *av_buffer_pool_get(AVBufferPool *pool); + +/** + * @} + */ + #endif /* AVUTIL_BUFFER_H */ diff --git a/libavutil/buffer_internal.h b/libavutil/buffer_internal.h index 677c341d64..cce83c3cd1 100644 --- a/libavutil/buffer_internal.h +++ b/libavutil/buffer_internal.h @@ -57,4 +57,36 @@ struct AVBuffer { int flags; }; +typedef struct BufferPoolEntry { + uint8_t *data; + + /* + * Backups of the original opaque/free of the AVBuffer corresponding to + * data. They will be used to free the buffer when the pool is freed. + */ + void *opaque; + void (*free)(void *opaque, uint8_t *data); + + AVBufferPool *pool; + struct BufferPoolEntry * volatile next; +} BufferPoolEntry; + +struct AVBufferPool { + BufferPoolEntry * volatile pool; + + /* + * This is used to track when the pool is to be freed. + * The pointer to the pool itself held by the caller is considered to + * be one reference. Each buffer requested by the caller increases refcount + * by one, returning the buffer to the pool decreases it by one. + * refcount reaches zero when the buffer has been uninited AND all the + * buffers have been released, then it's safe to free the pool and all + * the buffers in it. + */ + volatile int refcount; + + int size; + AVBufferRef* (*alloc)(int size); +}; + #endif /* AVUTIL_BUFFER_INTERNAL_H */ |