Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fftw3 thread safety ?

[Sylvain Munaut]

Hi,


> Can someone point me to
> the way gnuradio solves this thread safety issue (which must be solved
> since I can use as many FFT display blocks I want) ?

See planner::mutex() in gr-fft/lib/fft.cc


> The semaphore
> solution is not really satisfactory since I'd like not to ask my block
> to wait for all other data processing to be completed before I can
> complete its own task.

The execution (fftw_execute and variants) is safe and can be executed
by several threads in //, even on the same plan object.


Cheers,

   Sylvain