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From:   Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2023 00:34:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 8/8] media: uvcvideo: Fix hw timestampt handling
 for slow FPS
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
        "hn.chen" <hn.chen@sunplusit.com>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Hi Laurent

On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 at 15:51, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ricardo,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 06:02:48PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > In UVC 1.5, when working with FPS under 32, there is a chance that the
> > circular buffer contains two dev_sof overflows,
>
> An explanation of why this is the case would be good in the commit
> message. Also, by overflow, are you talking about the SOF counter
> rolling over ?
>
> > but the clock interpolator
> > is only capable of handle a single overflow.
> >
> > Remove all the samples from the circular buffer that are two overflows
> > old.
>
> I would rather support multiple roll-over in the clock interpolator.
> Dropping older sampls will lead to less predictable behaviour and harder
> to debug issues.
>

Multiple roll-over would not necessarily mean better data here. We are
deleting data that is more than 1 second away, and our resolution is
1kHz, which means that we have enough data to provide good results, we
have measured that 250msec already provides good data.

From a logical point of view, this patch is fixing a bug, not adding a
new feature, and it has been validated. I would rather add multi
roll-over as a follow-up patch, or maybe suggest implementing it in
userspace ;).

> > Tested-by: HungNien Chen <hn.chen@sunplusit.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h  |  1 +
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > index c81a8362d582..6b6bd521d6c2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> > @@ -471,6 +471,20 @@ static void uvc_video_clock_add_sample(struct uvc_clock *clock,
> >
> >       spin_lock_irqsave(&clock->lock, flags);
> >
> > +     /* Delete last overflows */
> > +     if (clock->head == clock->last_sof_overflow)
> > +             clock->last_sof_overflow = -1;
> > +
> > +     /* Handle overflows */
> > +     if (clock->count > 0 && clock->last_sof > sample->dev_sof) {
> > +             /* Remove data from the last^2 overflows */
> > +             if (clock->last_sof_overflow != -1)
> > +                     clock->count = (clock->head - clock->last_sof_overflow)
> > +                                                             % clock->count;
> > +             clock->last_sof_overflow = clock->head;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     /* Add sample */
> >       memcpy(&clock->samples[clock->head], sample, sizeof(*sample));
> >       clock->last_sof = sample->dev_sof;
> >       clock->head = (clock->head + 1) % clock->size;
> > @@ -594,6 +608,7 @@ static void uvc_video_clock_reset(struct uvc_clock *clock)
> >       clock->head = 0;
> >       clock->count = 0;
> >       clock->last_sof = -1;
> > +     clock->last_sof_overflow = -1;
> >       clock->sof_offset = -1;
> >  }
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> > index 14daa7111953..d8c520ce5a86 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> > @@ -647,6 +647,7 @@ struct uvc_streaming {
> >               unsigned int head;
> >               unsigned int count;
> >               unsigned int size;
> > +             unsigned int last_sof_overflow;
> >
> >               u16 last_sof;
> >               u16 sof_offset;
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart


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Ricardo Ribalda