media_decoder.cpp

Adrien Béraud authored 7 years ago and Guillaume Roguez committed 7 years ago

Using too many threads for decoding is not recommended and can
introduce latency.
Also during a call there are 2 live encoding and 2 live decoding,
so using all threads for every decoding is not useful and could
decrease performance and increase latency because of more
CPU context switch.
This is especially visible on machines with many logical cores
like AMD Threadrippers or some Intel CPUs.
Ideally, loads should use in total as many threads as logical cores
to profit from the full machine power while limiting context switches.

In this patch, decoders will use half the number of logical core,
with a maximum of 8 threads.

Change-Id: Ibe6c083c35fba972d930346629de2175625afd8c
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Roguez <guillaume.roguez@savoirfairelinux.com>