Moved cleaning up the EPG data and writing the epg.data file into a separate thread to avoid sluggish response to user input on slow systems

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -2955,3 +2955,7 @@ Jens Vogel <jens.vogel@akjv.de>
  for suggesting to make cPatPmtParser::ParsePmt() also recognize stream type 0x81
  as "AC3", so that recordings that have been converted from the old PES format to
  TS can be played
+
+Sören Moch <smoch@web.de>
+ for a patch that was used to move cleaning up the EPG data and writing the epg.data
+ file into a separate thread to avoid sluggish response to user input on slow systems

HISTORY

@@ -7235,7 +7235,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   function in order to make use of this new feature. See, for instance, the function
   cSkinClassicDisplayMenu::SetButtons() in skinclassic.c for details.
 
-2012-09-22: Version 1.7.31
+2012-09-24: Version 1.7.31
 
 - If regenerating an index file fails and no data is written to the file, VDR now
   reports this error and removes the empty index file.
@@ -7258,3 +7258,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   mechanism if they use intense background I/O.
 - Increased the size of the TS buffer to 5MB and that of the Recorder buffer to
   20MB to better handle HD recordings (suggested by Torsten Lang).
+- Moved cleaning up the EPG data and writing the epg.data file into a separate
+  thread to avoid sluggish response to user input on slow systems (based on a patch from
+  Sören Moch).

epg.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original version (as used in VDR before 1.3.0) written by
  * Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@web.de> and Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>.
  *
- * $Id: epg.c 2.18 2012/08/25 11:10:29 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: epg.c 2.19 2012/09/24 13:24:02 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "epg.h"
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include "timers.h"
 
 #define RUNNINGSTATUSTIMEOUT 30 // seconds before the running status is considered unknown
+#define EPGDATAWRITEDELTA   600 // seconds between writing the epg.data file
 
 // --- tComponent ------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -581,9 +582,20 @@ static void EpgBugFixStat(int Number, tChannelID ChannelID)
      }
 }
 
-void ReportEpgBugFixStats(bool Reset)
+void ReportEpgBugFixStats(bool Force)
 {
   if (Setup.EPGBugfixLevel > 0) {
+     static time_t LastReport = 0;
+     time_t now = time(NULL);
+     if (now - LastReport > 3600 || Force) {
+        LastReport = now;
+        struct tm tm_r;
+        struct tm *ptm = localtime_r(&now, &tm_r);
+        if (ptm->tm_hour != 5)
+           return;
+        }
+     else
+        return;
      bool GotHits = false;
      char buffer[1024];
      for (int i = 0; i < MAXEPGBUGFIXSTATS; i++) {
@@ -622,8 +634,7 @@ void ReportEpgBugFixStats(bool Reset)
             if (*buffer)
                dsyslog("%s", buffer);
             }
-         if (Reset)
+         p->hits = p->n = 0;
-            p->hits = p->n = 0;
          }
      if (GotHits)
         dsyslog("=====================");
@@ -1109,6 +1120,44 @@ bool cSchedule::Read(FILE *f, cSchedules *Schedules)
   return false;
 }
 
+// --- cEpgDataWriter ---------------------------------------------------------
+
+class cEpgDataWriter : public cThread {
+protected:
+  virtual void Action(void);
+public:
+  cEpgDataWriter(void);
+  void Perform(void);
+  };
+
+cEpgDataWriter::cEpgDataWriter(void)
+:cThread("epg data writer")
+{
+}
+
+void cEpgDataWriter::Action(void)
+{
+  SetPriority(19);
+  SetIOPriority(7);
+  Perform();
+}
+
+void cEpgDataWriter::Perform(void)
+{
+  {
+    cSchedulesLock SchedulesLock(true, 1000);
+    cSchedules *s = (cSchedules *)cSchedules::Schedules(SchedulesLock);
+    if (s) {
+       time_t now = time(NULL);
+       for (cSchedule *p = s->First(); p; p = s->Next(p))
+           p->Cleanup(now);
+       }
+  }
+  cSchedules::Dump();
+}
+
+static cEpgDataWriter EpgDataWriter;
+
 // --- cSchedulesLock --------------------------------------------------------
 
 cSchedulesLock::cSchedulesLock(bool WriteLock, int TimeoutMs)
@@ -1126,7 +1175,6 @@ cSchedulesLock::~cSchedulesLock()
 
 cSchedules cSchedules::schedules;
 char *cSchedules::epgDataFileName = NULL;
-time_t cSchedules::lastCleanup = time(NULL);
 time_t cSchedules::lastDump = time(NULL);
 time_t cSchedules::modified = 0;
 
@@ -1152,28 +1200,13 @@ void cSchedules::Cleanup(bool Force)
   if (Force)
      lastDump = 0;
   time_t now = time(NULL);
-  struct tm tm_r;
+  if (now - lastDump > EPGDATAWRITEDELTA) {
-  struct tm *ptm = localtime_r(&now, &tm_r);
+     if (epgDataFileName) {
-  if (now - lastCleanup > 3600) {
+        if (Force)
-     isyslog("cleaning up schedules data");
+           EpgDataWriter.Perform();
-     cSchedulesLock SchedulesLock(true, 1000);
+        else if (!EpgDataWriter.Active())
-     cSchedules *s = (cSchedules *)Schedules(SchedulesLock);
+           EpgDataWriter.Start();
-     if (s) {
-        for (cSchedule *p = s->First(); p; p = s->Next(p))
-            p->Cleanup(now);
         }
-     lastCleanup = now;
-     if (ptm->tm_hour == 5)
-        ReportEpgBugFixStats(true);
-     }
-  if (epgDataFileName && now - lastDump > 600) {
-     cSafeFile f(epgDataFileName);
-     if (f.Open()) {
-        Dump(f);
-        f.Close();
-        }
-     else
-        LOG_ERROR;
      lastDump = now;
      }
 }
@@ -1207,8 +1240,23 @@ bool cSchedules::Dump(FILE *f, const char *Prefix, eDumpMode DumpMode, time_t At
   cSchedulesLock SchedulesLock;
   cSchedules *s = (cSchedules *)Schedules(SchedulesLock);
   if (s) {
+     cSafeFile *sf = NULL;
+     if (!f) {
+        sf = new cSafeFile(epgDataFileName);
+        if (sf->Open())
+           f = *sf;
+        else {
+           LOG_ERROR;
+           delete sf;
+           return false;
+           }
+        }
      for (cSchedule *p = s->First(); p; p = s->Next(p))
          p->Dump(f, Prefix, DumpMode, AtTime);
+     if (sf) {
+        sf->Close();
+        delete sf;
+        }
      return true;
      }
   return false;

epg.h

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original version (as used in VDR before 1.3.0) written by
  * Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@web.de> and Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>.
  *
- * $Id: epg.h 2.14 2012/08/25 11:15:18 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: epg.h 2.15 2012/09/24 12:53:53 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __EPG_H
@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ private:
   cRwLock rwlock;
   static cSchedules schedules;
   static char *epgDataFileName;
-  static time_t lastCleanup;
   static time_t lastDump;
   static time_t modified;
 public:
@@ -207,7 +206,7 @@ public:
   static void Cleanup(bool Force = false);
   static void ResetVersions(void);
   static bool ClearAll(void);
-  static bool Dump(FILE *f, const char *Prefix = "", eDumpMode DumpMode = dmAll, time_t AtTime = 0);
+  static bool Dump(FILE *f = NULL, const char *Prefix = "", eDumpMode DumpMode = dmAll, time_t AtTime = 0);
   static bool Read(FILE *f = NULL);
   cSchedule *AddSchedule(tChannelID ChannelID);
   const cSchedule *GetSchedule(tChannelID ChannelID) const;
@@ -220,7 +219,7 @@ public:
   virtual void Action(void);
   };
 
-void ReportEpgBugFixStats(bool Reset = false);
+void ReportEpgBugFixStats(bool Force = false);
 
 class cEpgHandler : public cListObject {
 public:

vdr.c

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.tvdr.de
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 2.39 2012/09/17 08:56:58 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 2.40 2012/09/24 12:43:04 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -1295,6 +1295,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
            PluginManager.Housekeeping();
            }
 
+        ReportEpgBugFixStats();
+
         // Main thread hooks of plugins:
         PluginManager.MainThreadHook();
         }
@@ -1331,7 +1333,7 @@ Exit:
   EpgHandlers.Clear();
   PluginManager.Shutdown(true);
   cSchedules::Cleanup(true);
-  ReportEpgBugFixStats();
+  ReportEpgBugFixStats(true);
   if (WatchdogTimeout > 0)
      dsyslog("max. latency time %d seconds", MaxLatencyTime);
   if (LastSignal)