[PATCH v2] compositor: fix starvation of wl_buffer::release

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Sep 26 13:26:36 UTC 2017


On 26 September 2017 at 14:09, Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier at gmail.com> wrote:
> This change replaces a queued emission of buffer-release events (which
> is prone to starvation) with a regular event emission. This means that
> client programs no longer need to secretly install surface frame
> listeners just to guarantee that they get correctly notified of buffer
> lifecycle events.

File under, 'good ideas that didn't quite work out'.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>

Cheers,
Daniel


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