This avoids using a separate thread for handling pUpdateMbListEvent
events, and later allowing using the encode exit event on unix instead
of pthread cancellation.
This allows using the same codepath for both unix and windows
for distributing new slices to code to threads.
This also improves the performance on unix - instead of waiting
for all the current threads to finish their current slice
before handing out a new slice to each of them (where the threads
that finish first will just wait instead of immediately getting
a new slice to work on), we now use the same logic as on windows.
In one setup, it improves the performance of encoding from ~920 fps
to ~950 fps, and in another setup it goes from ~390 fps to ~660 fps.
(These tests were done with the SM_ROWMB_SLICE mode, which
heavily exercises the code for distributing new slices to the
worker threads.)
The extra WelsEventSignal call on windows where it isn't strictly
necessary doesn't incur any measurable slowdown, so it is kept
without any extra ifdefs to keep the code more readable and unified.
All users of the function passed the value corresponding to
"infinite", and the (currently unused) unix implementation of it
only supported infinite wait as well.
This unifies the event creation interface, even if the event
name itself is unused on windows, allowing use the exact same
code to initialize events regardless of the actual platform.
Some ifdefs still remain in the event initialization code, since
some events are only used on windows.
There is no point in doing a timed wait here - there's no work
that we can do if the wait timed out, and sleeping for 1 ms
inbetween doesn't help, it only adds potential extra latency
to reacting to threads that need more work to do.
Typedeffing WELS_EVENT as sem_t* makes the typedef behave similarly
to the windows version (typedeffed as HANDLE), unifying the code
that allocates and uses these event objects (getting rid of
most of the need for separate codepaths and ifdefs).
The caller of the function should not need to know exactly which
implementation of it is being used.
For the variants that don't support detecting the number of cores,
the pNumberOfLogicProcessors parameter can be left untouched
and the caller will use a higher level API for finding it out.
This simplifies all the calling code, and simplifies adding
more implementations of cpu feature detection.
The two different variants of the threadlib basically are
win32 and unix - use _WIN32 to check for this consistently,
instead of occasionally using __GNUC__ to enable the unix
codepath. (__GNUC__ is also defined on mingw, which still is
a windows platform and should use the _WIN32 code.)
The iFrameWidth/iFrameHeight fields are already aligned by the
SetActualPicResolution() function. Previously when iFrameWidth was
aligned directly in ParamBaseTranscode, this aligned value was used
to set iActualWidth/iActualHeight - losing the original, cropped
size.
This makes sure the output bitstream from the test of encoding
res/Static_152_100.yuv actually is cropped as it should.
This simplifies forward source compatibility when new fields are
added to SEncParamExt - when new fields are added to SEncParamExt,
this method makes sure those fields are initialized to the
default value - otherwise all API users would have to manually check
SEncParamExt every time it is updated to make sure there's no new fields
that should be set to a nonzero value by default (e.g. like
bEnableFrameSkip).
On processors without HTT, WelsCPUFeatureDetect can't return
a number of cores but might still return a nonzero set of
CPU feature flags. Previously the nonzero cpu feature flag
indicated that cpuid worked and the encoder wouldn't use the
higher level API for getting the number of cores, even though the
number of cores was left at 1.
Previously the loop filter was unconditionally enabled
regardless of what encoder parameter was set. If using
SEncParamBase instead, the loop filter was always disabled.
Previously, these fields kept whatever value was set by
FillDefault. The corresponding fields were set properly within
sSpatialLayers, but the fields within the main struct were left
with the default values.
This doesn't change the hashes in the unit test, since these
fields don't seem to be used in the produced bitstream at all.
Instead just duplicate the common fields. These fields had to
be duplicated for the C interface compatibility anyway - but
this way there is no risk to accidentally introduce an ABI
break since there is no need for the layout of SEncParamBase to
actually match the start of SEncParamExt.
