There are gstmemory's available that operate in two memory domains
and need to ensure consistent access between these domains.
Imagine a scenario where e.g. the GLMemory is mapped twice in both
the GPU and the CPU domain. On unmap or a subsequent map, it would
like to ensure that the most recent data is available in the memory
domain requested. Either by flushing the writes and/or initiating a
DMA transfer. Without knowing which domain is being unmapped, the
memory does not know where the most recent data is to transfer to
the other memory domain.
Note: this still does not allow downgrading a memory map.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750319
Remove the user_data from the alloc vmethod. Subclasses that implement a new
alloc function can also implement their own vmethod to pass extra arguments. We
can then also require that custom allocators implement an alloc function so that
gst_allocator_alloc() always works.
Make GstAllocator a GstObject instead of a GstMiniObject, like bufferpool.
Make a new gstallocator.c file. Make a GstAllocator subclass for the default
allocator.