Attributes on buffer ports that can be configured are the buffer port's size, margin, locking protocol (synchronous or asynchronous), addressing mode (linear or circular), and single buffer versus ping-pong-buffer. Of these attributes, margin, locking protocol and addressing mode are specified in the kernel function signature. Single buffer versus. ping-pong buffer is specified in the graph.
The size of a buffer port can be specified either in the kernel signature or in
the graph constructor. If the kernel function signature does not specify the size or if it is specified to be adf::inherited_extent
, then the size must be specified in the graph using
the dimensions()
API. The dimensions()
API is used in the constructor of the graph and configures
buffer port size in terms of the number of samples.
adf::inherited_extent
, represents the size of the buffer
which will be inferred from the context, e.g., it is inferred from the specification in
the graph.
The buffer port margin represents the number of samples copied from the end of
one block to the beginning of the next one. If a margin parameter is specified, the
total memory allocated is the sum of sample size and margin size, multiplied by template
data type in number of bytes( (sample size + margin size) *
sizeof
(data type)). In the case of a circular output buffer, the margin can be specified as
adf::inherited_margin
. In this situation, the
margin size will be specified by the sink connected to this output port.
An example function prototype specifying margin size follows:
simple(input_buffer<int32, adf::extents<adf::inherited_extent>,
adf::margin<MARGIN_SIZE>> & in0,
output_buffer<int32> & out0);
- Buffer port types define their dimensions and margin in number of samples of data. To determine the actual data size stored in physical memory, you will need to multiply the total number of samples with supported data type in bytes.
- If there is no margin, buffer size must be a multiple of 16 bytes. Otherwise, both buffer and margin size must be a multiple of 32 bytes.
- Constructs related to I/O buffers are defined in the
adf
namespace. Therefore, these constructs need to be qualified withadf::
, unless you includeusing namespace adf;
.