[PATCH wayland-protocols] Add zwp_linux_explicit_synchronization_v1

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Sep 20 14:11:57 UTC 2017


Hi Matt,

On 20 September 2017 at 05:48, Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a related subject, there was discussion back at
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-September/011091.html
> that acknowledged a longstanding bug where wl_buffer::release events
> are starved indefinitely in the outbound server socket if there
> doesn't happen to be any frame callback installed. That discussion
> petered out, but it looked like there was a consensus that the issue
> should be fixed (post the WL_BUFFER_RELEASE immediately rather than
> queue if no frame callbacks attached).
>
> That seems like a good issue to get closed up. Any objections to
> reviving the patch along the lines that Pekka suggested?

Since then, we've moved the frame events around, such that they're no
longer sent immediately, which might change the calculus a bit. Pekka?

Cheers,
Daniel


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