[PATCH weston 1/1] compositor: Abort on bad page flip timestamps

[Michel Dänzer]

On 07.11.2014 18:36, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>
> If we still feel that exiting Weston on the first timestamp failure
> (zero or not increasing) is too harsh, we could simply log a warning
> and add again some heuristics on when things are too far wrong to
> continue.
>
> E.g. getting a single timestamp failure during the first 5 seconds of
> compositor uptime warrants an exit, but later probably not. We want to
> catch cases where the compositor cannot reliably work to begin with,
> but killing the user's session much later is pretty blunt if it already
> worked somewhat.
>
> Would that be good?

Yeah, that would address my main concern.


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