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* cache: use threads instead of fork()wm42013-06-161-526/+383
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Basically rewrite all the code supporting the cache (i.e. anything other than the ringbuffer logic). The underlying design is untouched. Note that the old cache2.c (on which this code is based) already had a threading implementation. This was mostly unused on Linux, and had some problems, such as using shared volatile variables for communication and uninterruptible timeouts, instead of using locks for synchronization. This commit does use proper locking, while still retaining the way the old cache worked. It's basically a big refactor. Simplify the code too. Since we don't need to copy stream ctrl args anymore (we're always guaranteed a shared address space now), lots of annoying code just goes away. Likewise, we don't need to care about sector sizes. The cache uses the high-level stream API to read from other streams, and sector sizes are handled transparently.
* cache: make the stream cache a proper stream that wraps other streamswm42013-06-161-237/+117
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this commit, the cache was franken-hacked on top of the stream API. You had to use special functions (like cache_stream_fill_buffer() instead of stream_fill_buffer()), which would access the stream in a cached manner. The whole idea about the previous design was that the cache runs in a thread or in a forked process, while the cache awa functions made sure the stream instance looked consistent to the user. If you used the normal functions instead of the special ones while the cache was running, you were out of luck. Make it a bit more reasonable by turning the cache into a stream on its own. This makes it behave exactly like a normal stream. The stream callbacks call into the original (uncached) stream to do work. No special cache functions or redirections are needed. The only different thing about cache streams is that they are created by special functions, instead of being part of the auto_open_streams[] array. To make things simpler, remove the threading implementation, which was messed into the code. The threading code could perhaps be kept, but I don't really want to have to worry about this special case. A proper threaded implementation will be added later. Remove the cache enabling code from stream_radio.c. Since enabling the cache involves replacing the old stream with a new one, the code as-is can't be kept. It would be easily possible to enable the cache by requesting a cache size (which is also much simpler). But nobody uses stream_radio.c and I can't even test this thing, and the cache is probably not really important for it either.
* core: use STREAM_CTRL instead of accessing stream_dvd internalswm42013-06-091-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | Some code in mplayer.c did stuff like accessing (dvd_priv_t *)st->priv. Do this indirectly by introducing STREAM_CTRL_GET_DVD_INFO. This is extremely specific to DVD, so it's not worth abstracting this further. This is a preparation for turning the cache into an actual stream, which simply wraps the cached stream. There are other streams which are accessed in the way DVD was, at least TV/radio/DVB. We assume these can't be used with the cache. The code doesn't look thread-safe or fork aware.
* stream: rename cache2.c to cache.cwm42013-06-091-0/+804
I never found cache1.c (whatever it was named, if it ever existed). cache2.h will be deleted later, so don't go through the trouble of renaming it.