Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Manager for blob and message passing - Blocking in E110

[Jose Torres Diaz]

Hi Josh, 

Thanks for your answer. In my BLOCK 2, at the end of the work() function I'm not returning any parameter at all, so I assume the work() function is fine and consuming the input in BLOCK 2.

BLOCK 1 is the only one that has a manager (_mgr), so I believe that all the blobs are controlled by this BLOCK 1. 

As a last comment, my flowgraph seems to be working OK in my local machine but not in the E110. I'm not having any memory issue, so I'm quite confuse why my python file from GRC stops working in an infinite loop.

Regards and thanks for your help, 

Jose.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Josh Blum <address@hidden> wrote:

On 11/26/2012 10:11 PM, Jose Torres Diaz wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm still doing some blocks using message passing technique. Now, I'm
> working with blob passing downstream, however, my code blocks if I run a
> infinite loop. Before, I had some issues with memory blowing out (using PMT
> dictionaries), but using the pmt manager solves the problem.
>
> My code is quite easy, but it does not runs infinitely in E110.
>
> BLOCK 1 (Source of Blobs)   -------- >  BLOCK 2 (Count the number of Blobs
> received)
>

> *BLOCK 1 - Source:*

> This is the source block and it is similar to stream to blob. I'm creating
> a pool of 17 blobs with size 1500 bytes. I added some data into it and then
> posting downstream.
>

> *BLOCK 2 - Counter:
> *It counts the number of blobs received.

>
> Running this in the E110 does it only 1000 times (in an infinite loop). I
> checked the memory usage and it looks stable all the time. I read in
> https://github.com/guruofquality/grextras/wiki:
>
> "Normally, a PMT is created and passed to a downstream consumer. When all
> downstream consumers delete their references to the PMT, the object is
> deconstructed and freed back into nothingness. With the PMT manager, rather
> than being deconstructed, the PMT will return to the manager, where the
> user can reuse the deleted PMT without re-allocation."
>
> When it is mention the consumer deleting their reference to the PMT, should
> I do it into my work function in BLOCK 2? or is it done automatically by
> the manager?.

The PMTs are reference counted. When BLOCK2 work() function consumes the
input, the scheduler will delete the PMT references in BLOCK2. Then, the
manager see a reference count of 1, allowing BLOCK1 to use the
allocation again. So its automatic.

-josh

>
> Thanks for your help and directions,
>
> Regards ,
>
> Jose.
>
>
>

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