Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Block processing order

[Tim Pearce]

Hi Ben,

I was having problems with what appears to be blocks of data being saved out of sync (tended to happen at decimation rates lower than 100) but I haven't had a chance to get to the root of this issue, my current line of thinking is that when blocks have a side effect the ordering isnt guarenteed.

I modified the USRP2 source to output a second stream of timestamps and found the problem by running a quick sanity check by saving to disk, then importing and checking if each timestamp is higher than the one preceding it.
When using a C++ module (rather than a file sink) to check this everything seemed to be working as expected hence me thinking that it only occurs when the blocks output isnt limited to gnuradio.

I might be completely wrong as I cant seem to find the code for the multi-threaded scheduler to try and work out whats going on, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Tim

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Ben Gear <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

Does anyone know if the scheduler is guaranteed to process blocks in
the correct order?  For example, say you have a block with side
effects such as writing to a file, could it ever occur that the
scheduler is processing several work functions for the same block
concurrently in different threads,  the threads execute at a different
rate and you end up with a file written out of order?  In a similar
manner is accessing block member variables safe?  For example I want
to write a 'latch' block that takes in and outputs bits.  The output
will be low while the input is low until the first high bit is
received and then the output will remain high until it is reset.  If I
store the latch state in a member variable is it guaranteed that when
the latch is triggered at a given sample number all the output sample
before hand will be 0 and all after will be 1?

Many thanks,

Ben Gear


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