[LV2] worker thread question

[hermann meyer]

Am 30.12.2012 09:16, schrieb Robin Gareus:
> On 12/30/2012 08:43 AM, hermann meyer wrote:
>> Thanks Robin, for your input, what is open now for me is that I
>> need to read the port values in the worker thread, and that I would
>> watch them "outside" from run(). From what I understand about
>> glib-threads there is no problem as long I only read the values
>> were my pointers point to (data).
> I'm not aware of the spec mandating specific behavior of port values for
> the host-side implementation of the worker thread. Dave?
>
> You can access the instance LV2_Handle in the worker thread and
> you can also use the user-data field to pass information along to it.
>
> Since you likely have a local copy of the port data anyway (to compare
> if value_changed()) it's safer to use that local copy from your
> instance. Opposed to the data pointed to by ports, you are in control
> of that variable.


But those copy is set by use a other thread then run() to get the port 
value.
In fact it is set by the worker thread at the end of schedule.
So the outstanding question is, why should it be un-save to  (only) read 
the value my pointer points to, from a other thread then run() ?

greets
hermann
> AFAICT The port values themselves may or may not be valid and/or point
> to new or old data depending on the host implementation while the worker
> runs.
>
> 2c,
> robin