mutter/clutter
Christian Hergert 0810238d22 clutter/frame-clock: Use timerfd for clock timing
Currently, ClutterFrameClock uses g_source_set_ready_time() to determine
the usec timing of the next frame. That translates into a poll() with a
millisecond timeout if no trigger occurs to break the poll() out early.

To avoid spinning the CPU, GLib always rounds *up* to the next millisecond
value unless a timeout of 0 was provided by a GSource.

This means that timeouts for the ClutterFrameClock can easily skew beyond
their expected time as the precision is too coarse.

This applies the same concept as GNOME/glib!3949 but just for the
ClutterFrameClock. That may be more ideal than adding a timerfd for every
GMainContext, but we'll see if that lands upstream. I wanted to provide
this here because it could easily be cherry-picked in the mean time if
this is found to be useful.

From a timer stability perspective, this improves things from erratically
jumping between 100s and 1000s off of the expected awake time to single
or low double digits.

Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3636>
2024-03-06 23:10:13 +00:00
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clutter clutter/frame-clock: Use timerfd for clock timing 2024-03-06 23:10:13 +00:00
meson.build clutter: Explicitly depend on cairo 2024-01-27 10:03:15 +00:00