The buffer object is created by a 'drm' object, which encapsulates the
buffer sharing and authentication mechanism. Once the buffer is created
it can be attached to a surface.
This implements the commit/ack/frame protocol that let clients batch up
a series of requests and then commit them atomically using the commit request.
The commit requests generats two following events: the acknowledge event,
which lets the client know that the server has received the request and
which frame the rendering has been scheduled for. At this point the client
can start rendering the next frame or free up temporary buffers. Then when
the compositor finally makes the newly composited frame visible on screen
the server sends a frame event, which contains the number of the frame that
was presented and the time when it happened.
The window and flower clients have been updated to use these two events in
their main loops and everything now updates per frame. The EGL compositor
repaint loop has been tweaked to delay the compositing of the screen to
10ms after last swapbuffer completed so as to allow processing as many
requests as possible before blocking on the next vertical retrace.
Receiving events breaks out of the poll and resets the time out.
Effectively, this blocks the animation when the client receives events.
As a quick fix, use timerfd for timing the animation.
Kristian Høgsberg
Kristian Høgsberg