[PATCH xserver 0/2] RFC: Sync key repeat with Wayland compositor

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

> This still suffers from your priority-starvation-bug. If a simple
> ping/pong protocol barrier doesn't solve the issue, why would the
> timer? You'd have to put the timer on lowest priority to make that
> work, but then again you can do the same for wl_display_sync.
Yup, indeed, you're right. I guess we just need to fix the compositor
here.

> Btw., if your compositor stalls for a bit more, you end up with an
> evdev-queue overrun and have more trouble than you can solve. Is it
> really worth solving that single race, while there're still several
> known other issues that happen on stalling compositors?
My concern is that we don't end up with spurious repeat events.
I don't want a relatively benign compositor stall (which is a bug
and should be fixed!) leading to 15 mails getting deleted instead
of 1 mail getting deleted when the user hits delete once.

> Why not rather put keyboard handling on high-priority?
> It is low-throughput, anyway.
fair.

--Ray