1. 15 Mar, 2012 2 commits
  2. 11 Mar, 2012 3 commits
    • DRC's avatar
    • DRC's avatar
      Fix an issue that affects the existing Tight encoder as well as the... · 503dd6bb
      DRC authored
      Fix an issue that affects the existing Tight encoder as well as the newly-implemented Turbo encoder.
      
      The issue is that, when using the current libvncserver source, it is impossible to disable Tight JPEG encoding.
      The way Tight/Turbo viewers disable JPEG encoding is by simply not sending the Tight quality value, causing the
      server to use the default value of -1.  Thus, cl->tightQualityLevel has to be set to -1 prior to processing the
      encodings message for this mechanism to work.  Similarly, it is not guaranteed that the compress level will be
      set in the encodings message, so it is set to a default value prior to processing the message.
      503dd6bb
    • DRC's avatar
      Add TurboVNC encoding support. · 97001a7e
      DRC authored
      TurboVNC is a variant of TightVNC that uses the same client/server protocol (RFB version 3.8t),
      and thus it is fully cross-compatible with TightVNC and TigerVNC (with one exception, which is noted below.)
      Both the TightVNC and TurboVNC encoders analyze each rectangle, pick out regions of solid color to send
      separately, and send the remaining subrectangles using mono, indexed color, JPEG, or raw encoding, depending
      on the number of colors in the subrectangle.  However, TurboVNC uses a fundamentally different selection
      algorithm to determine the appropriate subencoding to use for each subrectangle.  Thus, while it sends a
      protocol stream that can be decoded by any TightVNC-compatible viewer, the mix of subencoding types in this
      protocol stream will be different from those generated by a TightVNC server.
      
      The research that led to TurboVNC is described in the following report:
      http://www.virtualgl.org/pmwiki/uploads/About/tighttoturbo.pdf.
      In summary:  20 RFB captures, representing "common" 2D and 3D application workloads (the 3D workloads were
      run using VirtualGL), were studied using the TightVNC encoder in isolation.  Some of the analysis features
      in the TightVNC encoder, such as smoothness detection, were found to generate a lot of CPU usage with little
      or no benefit in compression, so those features were disabled.  JPEG encoding was accelerated using
      libjpeg-turbo (which achieves a 2-4x speedup over plain libjpeg on modern x86 or ARM processors.)  Finally,
      the "palette threshold" (minimum number of colors that the subrectangle must have before it is compressed
      using JPEG or raw) was adjusted to account for the fact that JPEG encoding is now quite a bit faster
      (meaning that we can now use it more without a CPU penalty.)  TurboVNC has additional optimizations,
      such as the ability to count colors and encode JPEG images directly from the framebuffer without first
      translating the pixels into RGB.  The TurboVNC encoder compares quite favorably in terms of compression
      ratio with TightVNC and generally encodes a great deal faster (often an order of magnitude or more.)
      
      The version of the TurboVNC encoder included in this patch is roughly equivalent to the one found in version
      0.6 of the Unix TurboVNC Server, with a few minor patches integrated from TurboVNC 1.1.  TurboVNC 1.0
      added multi-threading capabilities, which can be added in later if desired (at the expense of making
      libvncserver depend on libpthread.)
      
      Because TurboVNC uses a fundamentally different mix of subencodings than TightVNC, because it uses
      the identical protocol (and thus a viewer really has no idea whether it's talking to a TightVNC or
      TurboVNC server), and because it doesn't support rfbTightPng (and in fact conflicts with it-- see below),
      the TurboVNC and TightVNC encoders cannot be enabled simultaneously.
      
      Compatibility:
      
      In *most* cases, a TurboVNC-enabled viewer is fully compatible with a TightVNC server, and vice versa.
      TurboVNC supports pseudo-encodings for specifying a fine-grained (1-100) quality scale and specifying
      chrominance subsampling.  If a TurboVNC viewer sends those to a TightVNC server, then the TightVNC server
      ignores them, so the TurboVNC viewer also sends the quality on a 0-9 scale that the TightVNC server can
      understand.  Similarly, the TurboVNC server checks first for fine-grained quality and subsampling
      pseudo-encodings from the viewer, and failing to receive those, it then checks for the TightVNC 0-9
      quality pseudo-encoding.
      
      There is one case in which the two systems are not compatible, and that is when a TightVNC or TigerVNC
      viewer requests compression level 0 without JPEG from a TurboVNC server.  For performance reasons,
      this causes the TurboVNC server to send images directly to the viewer, bypassing Zlib.  When the
      TurboVNC server does this, it also sets bits 7-4 in the compression control byte to rfbTightNoZlib (0x0A),
      which is unfortunately the same value as rfbTightPng.  Older TightVNC viewers that don't handle PNG
      will assume that the stream is uncompressed but still encapsulated in a Zlib structure, whereas newer
      PNG-supporting TightVNC viewers will assume that the stream is PNG.  In either case, the viewer will
      probably crash.  Since most VNC viewers don't expose compression level 0 in the GUI, this is a
      relatively rare situation.
      
      Description of changes:
      
      configure.ac
      -- Added support for libjpeg-turbo.  If passed an argument of --with-turbovnc, configure will now run
         (or, if cross-compiling, just link) a test program that determines whether the libjpeg library being
         used is libjpeg-turbo.  libjpeg-turbo must be used when building the TurboVNC encoder, because the
         TurboVNC encoder relies on the libjpeg-turbo colorspace extensions in order to compress images directly
         out of the framebuffer (which may be, for instance, BGRA rather than RGB.)  libjpeg-turbo can optionally
         be used with the TightVNC encoder as well, but the speedup will only be marginal (the report linked
         above explains why in more detail, but basically it's because of Amdahl's Law.  The TightVNC encoder
          was designed with the assumption that JPEG had a very high CPU cost, and thus JPEG is used only sparingly.)
      -- Added a new configure variable, JPEG_LDFLAGS.  This is necessitated by the fact that libjpeg-turbo
         often distributes libjpeg.a and libjpeg.so in /opt/libjpeg-turbo/lib32 or /opt/libjpeg-turbo/lib64,
         and many people prefer to statically link with it.  Thus, more flexibility is needed than is provided
         by --with-jpeg.  If JPEG_LDFLAGS is specified, then it overrides the changes to LDFLAGS enacted by
         --with-jpeg (but --with-jpeg is still used to set the include path.)  The addition of JPEG_LDFLAGS
         necessitated replacing AC_CHECK_LIB with AC_LINK_IFELSE (because AC_CHECK_LIB automatically sets
         LIBS to -ljpeg, which is not what we want if we're, for instance, linking statically with libjpeg-turbo.)
      -- configure does not check for PNG support if TurboVNC encoding is enabled.  This prevents the
         rfbSendRectEncodingTightPng() function from being compiled in, since the TurboVNC encoder doesn't
         (and can't) support it.
      
      common/turbojpeg.c, common/turbojpeg.h
      -- TurboJPEG is a simple API used to compress and decompress JPEG images in memory.  It was originally
         implemented because it was desirable to use different types of underlying technologies to compress
         JPEG on different platforms (mediaLib on SPARC, Quicktime on PPC Macs, Intel Performance Primitives, etc.)
         These days, however, libjpeg-turbo is the only underlying technology used by TurboVNC, so TurboJPEG's
         purpose is largely just code simplicity and flexibility.  Thus, since there is no real need for
         libvncserver to use any technology other than libjpeg-turbo for compressing JPEG, the TurboJPEG wrapper
         for libjpeg-turbo has been included in-tree so that libvncserver can be directly linked with libjpeg-turbo.
         This is convenient because many modern Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.) now ship libjpeg-turbo as
         their default libjpeg library.
      
      libvncserver/rfbserver.c
      -- Added logic to check for the TurboVNC fine-grained quality level and subsampling encodings and to
         map Tight (0-9) quality levels to appropriate fine-grained quality level and subsampling values if
         communicating with a TightVNC/TigerVNC viewer.
      
      libvncserver/turbo.c
      -- TurboVNC encoder (compiled instead of libvncserver/tight.c)
      
      rfb/rfb.h
      -- Added support for the TurboVNC subsampling level
      
      rfb/rfbproto.h
      -- Added constants for the TurboVNC fine quality level and subsampling encodings as well as the rfbTightNoZlib
         constant and notes on its usage.
      97001a7e
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  11. 26 Oct, 2011 2 commits
    • Peter Watkins's avatar
      Added comments. · b551e05e
      Peter Watkins authored
      b551e05e
    • Christian Beier's avatar
      Fix deadlock in threaded mode when using nested rfbClientIteratorNext() calls. · 3df7537a
      Christian Beier authored
      Lengthy explanation follows...
      
      First, the scenario before this patch:
      
      We have three clients 1,2,3 connected. The main thread loops through
      them using rfbClientIteratorNext() (loop L1) and is currently at
      client 2 i.e. client 2's cl_2->refCount is 1. At this point we need to
      loop again through the clients, with cl_2->refCount == 1, i.e. do a
      loop L2 nested within loop L1.
      
      BUT: Now client 2 disconnects, it's clientInput thread terminates its
      clientOutput thread and calls rfbClientConnectionGone(). This LOCKs
      clientListMutex and WAITs for cl_2->refCount to become 0. This means
      this thread waits for the main thread to release cl_2. Waiting, with
      clientListMutex LOCKed!
      
      Meanwhile, the main thread is about to begin the inner
      rfbClientIteratorNext() loop L2. The first call to rfbClientIteratorNext()
      LOCKs clientListMutex. BAAM. This mutex is locked by cl2's clientInput
      thread and is only released when cl_2->refCount becomes 0. The main thread
      would decrement cl_2->refCount when it would continue with loop L1. But
      it's waiting for cl2's clientInput thread to release clientListMutex. Which
      never happens since this one's waiting for the main thread to decrement
      cl_2->refCount. DEADLOCK.
      
      Now, situation with this patch:
      
      Same as above, but when client 2 disconnects it's clientInput thread
      rfbClientConnectionGone(). This again LOCKs clientListMutex, removes cl_2
      from the linked list and UNLOCKS clientListMutex. The WAIT for
      cl_2->refCount to become 0 is _after_ that. Waiting, with
      clientListMutex UNLOCKed!
      
      Therefore, the main thread can continue, do the inner loop L2 (now only
      looping through 1,3 - 2 was removed from the linked list) and continue with
      loop L1, finally decrementing cl_2->refCount, allowing cl2's clientInput
      thread to continue and terminate. The resources held by cl2 are not free()'d
      by rfbClientConnectionGone until cl2->refCount becomes 0, i.e. loop L1 has
      released cl2.
      3df7537a
  12. 17 Oct, 2011 2 commits
    • Johannes Schindelin's avatar
      Update AUTHORS · e3b8aaab
      Johannes Schindelin authored
      Signed-off-by: 's avatarJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
      e3b8aaab
    • George Fleury's avatar
      Fix memory leak · fba4818a
      George Fleury authored
      I was debbuging some code tonight and i found a pointer that is not been
      freed, so i think there is maybe a memory leak, so it is...
      
      there is the malloc caller reverse order:
      
      ( malloc cl->statEncList )
      	<- rfbStatLookupEncoding
      	<- rfbStatRecordEncodingSent
      	<- rfbSendCursorPos
      	<- rfbSendFramebufferUpdate
      	<- rfbProcessEvents
      
      I didnt look the whole libvncserver api, but i am using
      rfbReverseConnection with rfbProcessEvents, and then when the client
      connection dies, i am calling a rfbShutdownServer and rfbScreenCleanup,
      but the malloc at rfbStatLookupEncoding isnt been freed.
      
      So to free the stats i added a rfbResetStats(cl) after rfbPrintStats(cl)
      at rfbClientConnectionGone in rfbserver.c before free the cl pointer. (at
      rfbserver.c line 555). And this, obviously, is correcting the memory leak.
      Signed-off-by: 's avatarJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
      fba4818a
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