[RFC] Patch series: switching to internal events

[Tiago Vignatti]

Peter Hutterer escreveu:
> git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/xserver.git internal-events
> 
> The current X server implementation uses the protocol wire format for input
> event processing. This goes from event generation in GetPointerEvents() and
> friends through to the actual event delivery.
> 
> Thus, the server is bound internally to a 32-byte wire format + the two
> GenericEvents we have atm, with random if/then/else/other sprinkled to deal
> with core, XI and GenericEvents. Adding new events for XI2 is painful, as we
> have to extrapolate new information from structs that don't have them. And
> sprinkle more if/else/misc across the code.
> 
> This patch series introduces a new InternalEvent, visible only to the server.
> Event generation and most of the event processing now only uses this
> InternalEvent.
> Towards the end of event delivery, we switch back into core/XI events.
> Arguably, this could be pushed even further but requires a rework of the mess
> that constitutes event masks.
> 
> I've been running versions of it during development, and put some effort in to
> make all commits run-able (for future bisecting). They're rebased onto today's
> master.
> 
> Casualties: custom event handlers, DGA, event callbacks are broken for now.
> No reason they can't be fixed, I just didn't bother yet.
> 
> Comments and testing much appreciated.

I don't what would be the overhead of this approach but maybe we can win 
some performance doing all 'switch' in eventconvert.c as a vector of 
pointers. Something like tables.c.


Cheers,

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Tiago Vignatti
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