[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Allow using primary CUDA device context

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 20/11/2019 11:29, Oleg Dobkin wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 23:58 +0100, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
>> Only thing I'm still wondering is if it would make sense to use the
>> primary context by default.
>> I can't think of any obvious downsides, other than weakened
>> isolation,
>> which really shouldn't be a huge concern.
>> And there apparently are some potential performance gains.
> 
> I think it's safer to leave the default behavior, in case of some
> unknown corner cases - there could be some legacy code that assumes the
> creation of different contexts per each decoder.
> 

Good point. I haven't found the time to give this a test run so far.
Once I did, and nothing exploded, I'll do a round of releases of 
ffnvcodec and apply the patch.