patch for X wakeups

[Jerome Glisse]

Erik Andrén wrote:
> 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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I have closed the bug, this patch have already been
applied see commit 2338d5c9914e2a43c3a4f7ee0f4355ad0a1ad9e7

Cheers,
Jerome Glisse