User:Cgdae

Current

Control over thread-cpu affinities.

This work is on next.

By default OSG ties the main thread and others to a single CPU core early on in startup. This can cause problems on Linux if one tries to run CPU-intensive tasks on other threads, because new threads inherit their parent thread's affinity settings.

For example this can make video encoding run very slowly because the internal threads created by ffmpeg can end up all trying to run on the same core.

One can change the default behaviour by setting the /sim/thread-cpu-affinity property on startup with --prop:/sim/thread-cpu-affinity=...:

• Empty string or unset: allow OSG to set thread affinities as normal.
• Set to "none": do not allow OSG to set thread affinities; the OS gets to choose what cores to use.
• Set to "osg": allow OSG to set up thread affinities but attempt to cancel affinity of main thread afterwards. (This doesn't really work.)

One can also change the behaviour at runtime by setting property /sim/affinity-control, e.g. to test the effect of thread affinities on frame rate:

• Set to "clear": remember current threads' affinities then clear all thread affinities.
• Set to "revert": restore thread affinities remembered from most recent clear setting.

Completed

These are all on next. Some items may also have been cherry-picked onto the current stable branch.

• YASim torus-shaped tyre contact surfaces.
• Video encoding of Flightgear's main window.
  • E.g. see: http://op59.net/fgvideo-harrier-gr3-manhattan.mkv
• Highlighting.
• SimpleTime.
• Extra view windows.
• Enhancements to record/replay.
• Enhancements to multiplayer carrier operation.
• logdeltas - control of debug log levels based on source filename prefixes, line numbers and function prefixes.
• Record/replay:
  • Multiplayer record.
  • Continuous record.
  • Recovery snapshots.
• Multiplayer views.
• Tower View AGL.

Other

• Category:Hackathon 2021 Ideas.
• The Walk Flightgear Build system - a different kind of build system which i use to build Flightgear.
• Harrier-GR3 autohover: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/HEAD/tree/trunk/Aircraft/Harrier-GR3/
• Flightgear on OpenBSD.