There is a performance issue with this. If your program needs to manipulate the raw data, but at the same time provide that raw data to another branch(es), a copy much be made. If this is the case, then it would make more sense to duplicate the data in parallel as it enters the system. This should be more efficient than memcopy.
I am looking into DMA to see if this is possible. Regards, Mark McCarron From: m...@ettus.com Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 20:51:32 -0700 Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about UHD driver To: mark.mccar...@live.co.uk CC: discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org There is no need to create multiple copies. The consuming blocks are each given a pointer to the same data, and the memory is not freed until all the consuming blocks indicate they are done with it. Matt On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Mark McCarron <mark.mccar...@live.co.uk> wrote: I am wondering if the UHD driver has the ability to create multiple copies of the stream in memory??? Let's say I have a flow-graph that has two branches, the first pushes complex data to an FFT, whereas the second demodulates a portion of that data into AM. Does the driver supply a single stream, which is then copied by the application? Or does it create two copies of the stream and allow each branch of the flow-graph to manipulate the data via pointers? I'm digging into DMA to see if this is possible, I would be surprised if there was a limitation here. Regards, Mark McCarron _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
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