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GNOME Developers New Code Takes On Cursor Stutters


It's been one year since Canonical desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt, who is known for his upstream GNOME contributions, touched his patch-set implementing dynamic deadline evasion support

It's been one year since Canonical desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt, who is known for his upstream GNOME contributions, touched his patch-set implementing dynamic deadline evasion support. But this week brought the long-awaited third iteration of the patches that aim to eliminate cursor stutters from the Mutter compositor's KMS thread. But then as an alternative, Michel Dänzer came up with a different approach to track the KMS update duration within the crtc_frame_deadline_dispatch code so it's taken into account within the existing deadline evasion function.

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