Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PDU_to_tagged_stream consumes 100% CPU even though it is throttled!

[Johnathan Corgan]

On 01/15/2015 12:59 AM, Sylvain Munaut wrote:

> To me it look like all it's missing is a
> basic_block::delete_head_blocking with a timeout. Then the
> pdu_to_tagged_stream_impl::calculate_output_stream_length could just
> use that with a reasonably small timeout (like 100ms or so) so that it
> waits on a message but if none comes, it still handout control back to
> the caller from time to time (which I think is required for stop() to
> work).
> 
> Is there anything that wouldn't work with this approach ?

A change to a blocking call with a timeout would work as a "short" term fix.

The longer term proper fix requires a scheduler change as outlined in a
that email Stephan Ludwig asked about.  It's in a long list of things
Tom and I are organizing for 3.8 scheduler work.

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