patch for X wakeups

[Erik Andrén]

Hi,
I just wanted to chime in that I've created an upstream bug [1] tracking 
this patch.
Arjan, I couldn't add you as a CC to the bug as it seems you aren't 
registred on the freedesktop bugzilla.

Regards,
Erik

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14137

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sure many here on the list have seen the
> X: do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
> wakeups and wondered if it was possible to get rid of these....
> 
> 
> ... wonder no more; I've made a patch to X that optimizes the X server 
> and gets rid of these wakeups for pretty much all cases. I've attached 
> the patch to this email for those brave enough to build their own X 
> server. Note: building X is not easy; I strongly recommend using the 
> packaging system of your distro and just adding the patch to that, and 
> then build a new package. Building X can be a great way to hose a system 
> if you're not very careful
> 
> Greetings,
>    Arjan van de Ven
> 
> 
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