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Message-ID: <20180115120111.GA9598@jade>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:01:11 -0200
From:   Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>
To:     Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...omium.org>
Cc:     Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
        Pawel Osciak <pawel@...iak.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>,
        Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@....com>,
        Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@...labora.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] [media] vb2: add is_unordered callback for drivers

2018-01-15 Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...omium.org>:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:07 AM, Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org> wrote:
> > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.com>
> >
> > Explicit synchronization benefits a lot from ordered queues, they fit
> > better in a pipeline with DRM for example so create a opt-in way for
> > drivers notify videobuf2 that the queue is unordered.
> >
> > Drivers don't need implement it if the queue is ordered.
> 
> This is going to make user-space believe that *all* vb2 drivers use
> ordered queues by default, at least until non-ordered drivers catch up
> with this change. Wouldn't it be less dangerous to do the opposite
> (make queues non-ordered by default)?

The rational behind this decision was because most formats/drivers are
ordered so only a small amount of drivers need to changed. I think this
was proposed by Hans on the Media Summit.

I understand your concern. My question is how dangerous will it be. If
you are building a product you will make the changes in the driver if
they are not there yet, or if it is a distribution you'd never know
which driver/format you are using so you should be prepared for
everything.

AFAIK all Capture drivers are ordered and that is where I think fences
is most useful.

Gustavo