Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Slow down rate of Python source block
From:
David Halls
Subject:
Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Slow down rate of Python source block
Date:
Fri, 1 Aug 2014 09:24:11 +0000
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From: address@hidden address@hidden on behalf of Tom Rondeau address@hidden
Sent: 31 July 2014 19:11
To: David Halls
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Slow down rate of Python source block
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:21 PM, David Halls <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Dear All,
I have a Python block that produces packets of size 1536 bytes. Due to various reasons, the latter parts of my flow graph are very slow (this is desired and cannot be changed). After producing 510 packets, I get the following error.
"handler caught exception: operands could not be broadcast together with shapes (1527) (1536)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/gr/gateway.py", line 55, in eval
try: self._callback()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gnuradio/gr/gateway.py", line 160, in __gr_block_handle
) for i in self.__out_indexes],
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trl/blsd_enc_b.py", line 198, in work
out_cA[0:len(cAm)] = cAm
ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with shapes (1527) (1536)
thread[thread-per-block[1]: <block blsd_enc_b (2)>]: caught unrecognized exception"
Debugging more carefully, I can see that:
len(cAm) = 1536 , len(out_cA) = 32768
Just a quick response without really studying the problem or your code. The dynamic scheduler in GR is getting in your way, and the throttle block is definitely not the right way to help you. You need to either tell the scheduler what you need it to send your block or handle it internally. There are three ways to solve these issues:
1. Use set_output_multiple in the constructor, which will only allow the scheduler to send you chunks of data of some multiple of the number you pass that. I've seen this slow down the scheduler in other situations, but it sounds like you're going slow, anyways, so this shouldn't cause a problem.
2. Make your input signature your packet_length so each item will be a vector of that length. This would not be my preferred way, but we've played that game before.
3. Handle it internally. Buffer up the input until you have enough to produce what you need. You'd need to inherit from gr.basic_block here and do more management of the data and buffers yourself.
Tom
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Tom,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately as it is a Python block, I cannot use 'set_output_multiple'. For 2. do you mean set the input signature of the blocks fed from the source block. This could be possible but quite a few different blocks (some standard GR blocks) are fed from it. Could you provide some more details, or a link to similar implementation for option 3. - again is this possible from within a Python block?
Regards,
David
for the first 490 packets, and then the length of 'out_cA' begins to reduce
I believe this is because the latter parts of the flow graph are blocking, their buffers become full, and this backs up to my source block. This is confirmed by connecting my source block to null sinks, which then allows the source block to run infinitely (well, a long while!).
Is there a way I can slow up this block? I tried using a throttle on the output, but this doesn't help (in fact it seems to make it worse!).
The full code of the block is attached.
Thanks!
David
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