[PATCH weston 2/2] compositor-drm: Only add input devices after a frame is displayed

[Rob Bradford]

On 12 February 2013 15:52, Ander Conselvan de Oliveira
<ander.conselvan.de.oliveira at intel.com> wrote:
> Input device initialization takes several microseconds to complete. Two
> things causes this: compiling the XKB keymap and reading the properties
> database from the udev daemon. The user can't really interact with
> anything on the screen until something is displayed, so this can be
> delayed.
>
> On my system, this patch saves ~50ms from launching Weston to have the
> first frame displayed.

Hey Ander, I like the idea of this :-) However can I raise the concern
that although you're going to be starting weston fast - and getting to
that first frame fast!. Won't we then miss the opportunity to do the
next 3 frames on the vblank - since we'll be be blocked doing the
device setup.

Can we be clever about this and split the device setup into some
separate blocks of idle code so that we never block for that solid
period? e.g. xkbcommon compilation (could we even cache this compiled
data?) in one idle, udev interaction in another.

Cheerio,

Rob