Re: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 3:01 AM Simon Ser <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Monday, March 16, 2020 5:04 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hopefully, that will provide some motivation for other compositors
> > (kwin, gnome-shell, etc.) because they now have a real user of it in
> > an upstream driver for a major desktop platform and not just a few
> > weston examples. However, someone is going to have to drive the
> > actual development in those compositors. I'd be very happy if more
> > people got involved, :-)
>
> FWIW, a wlroots pull request is in progress [0]. The plan is first to
> accept fence FDs from clients, then send them our fences as a second
> step.

What exactly are the semantics there?  Are you going to somehow wait
inside wlroots for the buffer to be 100% idle or are you expecting the
client to somehow use explicit for sending buffers implicit to wait
for idle?  If it's the latter, that's not going to work.

--Jason



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