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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why does general_work return large number?


From: Zohair
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Why does general_work return large number?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:27:41 -0700 (PDT)

OK Eric. from what you've said I can understand that we cannot control
noutput_items. All what we can do is return it from general_work(). It's
solely for coordination issues and the runtime system takes control over it.

Thanks.

Zoh

Eric Blossom wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 11:57:24AM +0100, Zohair M. Abu Shaban wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> I have read what you recommended but still haven't understood what
>> the significance of this number is. I have another block that
>> generates a vector of 4 elements and the noutput_items is almost 1/4
>> the number of first block. Any further help please?
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> Zohair
> 
> The numbers are choosen by the GNU Radio runtime system.  They may
> vary over time and are dependent on the amount of buffer space
> allocated by the runtime and the rates of production upstream and
> consumption downstream.  The values are choosen by a heuristic
> designed to optimized throughput.
> 
> If your block is properly written, it will respond appropriately to
> any value of noutput_items.
> 
> I'm not sure that I've answered your real question.  I suspect that
> you may be somewhat unclear about the nature of the streaming data
> flow model that's used in GNU Radio.
> 
> Eric
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