separate transactions from updates

with this changes, SF transactions are handled as soon as possible
but do not trigger updates. the update is delayed until the next
vsync.

this allows us to work much better without requiring triple-buffering.

Change-Id: I1fa10794d0cf742129f0877698b7b1e1f2ec7401

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libs/gui/DisplayEventReceiver.cpp b/libs/gui/DisplayEventReceiver.cpp
index 3b3ccaa..6a4763d 100644
--- a/libs/gui/DisplayEventReceiver.cpp
+++ b/libs/gui/DisplayEventReceiver.cpp
@@ -80,7 +80,13 @@ status_t DisplayEventReceiver::requestNextVsync() {
 
 ssize_t DisplayEventReceiver::getEvents(DisplayEventReceiver::Event* events,
         size_t count) {
-    ssize_t size = mDataChannel->read(events, sizeof(events[0])*count);
+    return DisplayEventReceiver::getEvents(mDataChannel, events, count);
+}
+
+ssize_t DisplayEventReceiver::getEvents(const sp<BitTube>& dataChannel,
+        Event* events, size_t count)
+{
+    ssize_t size = dataChannel->read(events, sizeof(events[0])*count);
     ALOGE_IF(size<0,
             "DisplayEventReceiver::getEvents error (%s)",
             strerror(-size));