[PATCH 6/8] media: uvcvideo: Allow hw clock updates with buffers not full

From: Ricardo Ribalda
Date: Thu Nov 18 2021 - 17:09:30 EST


With UVC 1.5 we get as little as one clock sample per frame. Which means
that it takes 32 frames to move from the software timestamp to the
hardware timestamp method.

This results in abrupt changes in the timestamping after 32 frames (~1
second), resulting in noticeable artifacts when used for encoding.

With this patch we modify the update algorithm to work with whatever
amount of values are available.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
index 3a2717e2c92c0..22b2bab0af5d9 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
@@ -734,10 +734,10 @@ void uvc_video_clock_update(struct uvc_streaming *stream,

spin_lock_irqsave(&clock->lock, flags);

- if (clock->count < clock->size)
+ if (clock->count < 2)
goto done;

- first = &clock->samples[clock->head];
+ first = &clock->samples[(clock->head - clock->count) % clock->size];
last = &clock->samples[(clock->head - 1) % clock->size];

/* First step, PTS to SOF conversion. */
--
2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog