[cairo] [RFC PATCH] xlib-shm: Use XCB for SHM synchronization

[Chris Wilson]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 01:30:41PM +0100, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> The old code used XSendEvent() to make sure that LastKnownRequestProcessed()
> gets updated eventually and tracked sequence numbers to implement an
> asynchronous XSync() through this.
> 
> The problems with this is that XSetEventQueueOwner(dpy, XCBOwnsEventQueue)
> changes semantics here and _XReadEvents() becomes a no-op. This broke the
> implementation and would cause an endless loop in
> _cairo_xlib_shm_surface_flush().
> 
> Additionally, the SHM event that is generated through XSendEvent() ended up in
> the event queue and would need to be fetched by the main loop. Otherwise, the
> event queue's size would grow and "some things" got slow.
> 
> The new implementation uses xcb_get_input_focus() and xcb_poll_for_reply() to
> implement the asynchronous XSync(). This causes more syncs to be done, because
> the old optimization of "only call XSendEvent() when actually needed" no longer
> applies. Also, this causes ownership of the X11 socket to be passed back and
> forth between XCB and Xlib.
> 
> TODO: Run the perf suite and check for regressions

Not the perf suite but actual browser usage (e.g. midori).

Not impressed though.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre