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@jdm jdm commented Oct 20, 2017

This addresses one of the top intermittent test failures in Servo and cleans up an awkward part of the renderer API. Instead of storing an optional notifier inside of a shared mutex, we require that the notifier is cloneable and is responsible for its own mutation requirements. This puts the onus on the implementation of a particular notifier to deal with threadsafety concerns, rather than making all consumers pay for it.


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blob_image_renderer: Option<Box<BlobImageRenderer>>,
enable_render_on_scroll: bool,
) -> RenderBackend {
) -> RenderBackend<T> {
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nit: Self

fn new_frame_ready(&mut self);
fn new_scroll_frame_ready(&mut self, composite_needed: bool);
fn external_event(&mut self, _evt: ExternalEvent) {
pub trait RenderNotifier: Send + Clone {
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would it make sense to provide an empty implementation, e.g. for ()?

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I don't see the purpose if no code makes use of it.

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/// The render backend operates on its own thread.
pub struct RenderBackend {
pub struct RenderBackend<T> {
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Is there a reason this needs to be generic instead of using a trait object? Having it generic is going to increase wrench's already bad build times and we don't have any need to inline or devirtualize the notifier.

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I have rewritten the changes to retain the trait object.

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glennw commented Oct 22, 2017

Reviewed 7 of 13 files at r1, 6 of 6 files at r2.
Review status: all files reviewed at latest revision, 3 unresolved discussions, some commit checks failed.


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glennw commented Oct 22, 2017

@bors-servo r+

Thanks!

@staktrace Heads up - this will need an update to Gecko bindings. The render notifier is provided at initialization now and has slightly different requirements. Once this lands, I'll write a Gecko patch for that and post it here.

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📌 Commit 78fd025 has been approved by glennw

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⌛ Testing commit 78fd025 with merge d741f47...

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Require immutable, threadsafe render notifier at renderer initialization

This addresses one of the top intermittent test failures in Servo and cleans up an awkward part of the renderer API. Instead of storing an optional notifier inside of a shared mutex, we require that the notifier is cloneable and is responsible for its own mutation requirements. This puts the onus on the implementation of a particular notifier to deal with threadsafety concerns, rather than making all consumers pay for it.

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☀️ Test successful - status-appveyor, status-travis
Approved by: glennw
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@bors-servo bors-servo merged commit 78fd025 into master Oct 22, 2017
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@glennw thanks for the heads up. Please post the patch to https://bugzil.la/wr-future-update when you have it, thanks!

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glennw commented Oct 23, 2017

@staktrace OK, attached a patch to that bug. I'm unfamiliar with bugzilla workflow, but hopefully that should be what you need to update for the notifier API changes (I've tested them locally).

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@glennw Perfect, thanks!

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