From 5376bc757f913764e61ac17a8efc05dbc7bb93d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 00:01:56 +0000
Subject: fix num DSP threads computation (TODO: move into a utility function
 for Sakari's graph too)

git-svn-id: svn://localhost/ardour2/branches/3.0@8791 d708f5d6-7413-0410-9779-e7cbd77b26cf
---
 libs/ardour/graph.cc | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libs/ardour/graph.cc b/libs/ardour/graph.cc
index 29e95b67fd..6fb9305d20 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/graph.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/graph.cc
@@ -97,32 +97,37 @@ void
 Graph::reset_thread_list ()
 {
         int num_cpu = hardware_concurrency();
-        uint32_t num_threads = num_cpu;
         int pu = Config->get_processor_usage ();
 	pthread_t a_thread;
-
-        Glib::Mutex::Lock lm (_session.engine().process_lock());
-
-        if (!_thread_list.empty()) {
-                drop_threads ();
-        }
+        uint32_t num_threads = max (num_cpu - 1, 2); // default to number of cpus minus one, or 2, whichever is larger
 
         if (pu < 0) {
                 /* pu is negative: use "pu" less cores for DSP than appear to be available
                  */
 
-                if ((uint32_t) -pu < num_threads) {
-                        num_threads += pu; 
-                } else {
-                        num_threads = 1;
+                if (-pu < num_cpu) {
+                        num_threads = num_cpu + pu;
                 }
+
+        } else if (pu == 0) {
+
+                num_threads = num_cpu;
+
         } else {
                 /* use "pu" cores, if available
                  */
                 
-                if ((uint32_t) pu <= num_threads) {
-                        num_threads = pu;
-                } 
+                num_threads = min (num_cpu, pu);
+        }
+
+        if (_thread_list.size() == num_threads) {
+                return;
+        }
+
+        Glib::Mutex::Lock lm (_session.engine().process_lock());
+
+        if (!_thread_list.empty()) {
+                drop_threads ();
         }
 
 	if (AudioEngine::instance()->create_process_thread (boost::bind (&Graph::main_thread, this), &a_thread, 100000) == 0) {
@@ -135,8 +140,8 @@ Graph::reset_thread_list ()
 		}
         }
 
-        info << string_compose (_("Using %2 threads on %1 CPUs"), _thread_list.size(), num_threads) << endmsg;
-        cerr << string_compose (_("Using %2 threads on %1 CPUs"), _thread_list.size(), num_threads) << endl;
+        info << string_compose (_("Using %1 threads for DSP on %2 CPUs"), _thread_list.size(), num_cpu) << endmsg;
+        cerr << string_compose (_("Using %1 threads for DSP on %2 CPUs"), _thread_list.size(), num_cpu) << endl;
 }
 
 void
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