GST_CLOCK_TYPE_TAI is GStreamer abstraction for CLOCK_TAI. Main
motivation for this patch is support for transmission offloading features
- when network packets are timestamped with the time they are deemed to
be actually transmitted. Linux API for that requires that time to be
in CLOCK_TAI coordinate.
With GST_CLOCK_TYPE_TAI, applications can use CLOCK_TAI directly on
their pipelines, avoiding the need to cross timestamp packet times. By
leveraging system's CLOCK_TAI, applications also don't need to keep track
of leap seconds - less burden for them. Just keep system's CLOCK_TAI
accurate and use it.
Since we started depending on GLib 2.44, we can be sure this macro is
defined (it will be a no-op on compilers that don't support it). For
plugins we should just start using `G_DECLARE_FINAL_TYPE` which means
we no longer need the macro there, but for most types in core we don't
want to break ABI, which means it's better to just keep it like it is
(and use the `#ifdef` instead).
We need different export decorators for the different libs.
For now no actual change though, just rename before the release,
and add prelude headers to define the new decorator to GST_EXPORT.
Add a property to select the clock type, currently REALTIME and MONOTONIC when
posix timers are available.
Implement the systemclock with GstPoll instead of GCond. This allows us to
schedule timeouts with nanosecond precission on newer kernels and with ppoll
support. It's also resilient to changes to the systemclock because of NTP or
similar.
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* docs/design/part-states.txt:
Some more docs.
* gst/gstbin.c: (gst_bin_set_clock_func), (gst_bin_recalc_state),
(gst_bin_change_state_func), (bin_bus_handler):
Doc updates. Don't distribute the same clock over and over again.
* gst/gstclock.c:
* gst/gstclock.h:
Doc updates.
* gst/gstpad.c: (gst_flow_get_name), (gst_flow_to_quark),
(gst_pad_get_type), (gst_pad_push), (gst_pad_push_event),
(gst_pad_send_event):
* gst/gstpad.h:
Make probe emission threadsafe again.
Register quarks and move _get_name() from utils.
Doc updates.
* gst/gstpipeline.c: (gst_pipeline_class_init),
(gst_pipeline_change_state), (gst_pipeline_provide_clock_func):
Only redistribute the clock of it changed.
* gst/gstsystemclock.h:
Doc updates.
* gst/gstutils.c:
* gst/gstutils.h:
Moved the _flow_get_name() to GstPad.
Original commit message from CVS:
First THREADED backport attempt, focusing on adding locks and
making sure the API is threadsafe. Needs more work. More docs
follow this week.
Original commit message from CVS:
SysClocks need their own mutex/cond pair, as we have multiple (via subclasses). Use a static mutex for setting THE system clock
Original commit message from CVS:
- Keep track of pending clock waits so we can unlock them
- don't wait when diff bigger than configurable max to avoid clock lockups
Original commit message from CVS:
- Cleanups
- Added padding to structs
- fixed typechecking/casts
- reduced casts
- implemented remove_element in gstbin
- implemented set index on bin
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- Removed unused locking from the cothreads
- use G_*_DECLS in .h files
- remove gstlog.h include from gstobject.h, add to .c files
- removed unused refcounting code from gstobject
- small fixes in #includes
- Added Scheduling policy and priority properties to gstthread so that
SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR threads can be constructed.
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- Remove the propsprivate header file
- Added new API for properties.
- Moved the clock distribution to the scheduler.
- Removed the lock from GstCaps
- Added boxed types for Caps/Props
- Simplified the clock, new systemclock implementation
- Removed deprecated element_info/send_event functions
- First step at exposing more info in the pad_connect functions
- Queue cleanup
- Make the scheduler aware of other schedulers inside it
- Added the _SELF_SCHEDULABLE flag to gstthread
- Removed _get_widget from _utils, changed to new props API
- Make fakesink sync on timestamps when requested
- Removed the offset notify from filesrc
- Added a fast scheduler
- some scheduler cleanups.
Original commit message from CVS:
Added a first stab at a better clocking system.
It still needs more infrastructure for async notification and custom clock
implementors.
This thing can still deadlock the pipeline.
