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LCA: The ways of WaylandLCA: The ways of WaylandPosted Mar 18, 2013 10:16 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: LCA: The ways of Wayland by Serge Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland
First, as long as you have a single videoadapter having a single thread to work with it is perfectly fine. Second, as long as Xorg uses less than 100% CPU, yes, single-threading is the best design, because it makes X-server faster.This is guaranteed true only if the GPU is also single-threaded and the X server does nothing but talk to it: but the GPU is massively parallel, and the X server does a lot of things other than talk to it. However, in practice, locking overhead seems to dominate if you try to parallelize the existing server. (It's been done, in the 1990s. It didn't scale, even then, when the memory hierarchy was less hostile to such things than it is now. There's a reason that even the mouse driver works as it has always worked, via SIGIO in a single thread.)
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