1761972 - Let GPU process ride the trains on Android

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(GeckoView Graveyard :: Sandboxing, task)

Description

[Jamie Nicol [:jnicol]]

In bug 1759592 we held the GPU process back to be nightly-only because crashes were not being reported due to a Fenix change. This was resolved in this pull request, so let's let it ride the trains.

There was an outstanding question about whether that solution would result in enough crashes being reported (due to using a system notification rather than an in-application prompt.) We added the process type to crash ping telemetry to ensure we have an accurate count to compare the number of reports against. This is just starting to trickle in but so far doesn't show a huge discrepancy. Comparing crash rates on Socorro in the past week versus when it was enabled during the 99 cycle shows we're getting a few crashes per day compared to around 10 per day. I think that's an acceptable level of coverage where the pros of having the GPU process enabled outweigh the cons, but we should definitely keep an eye on it during the beta cycle.

Comment 1

[Jamie Nicol [:jnicol]]

Attachment: Bug 1761972 - Allow GPU process to ride the trains on Android. r?agi

This was previously held back to nightly-only due to crashes not being
reported, but that has since been addressed by
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/pull/11872

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/00ea1e2f893c
Allow GPU process to ride the trains on Android. r=agi

Comment 3

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/00ea1e2f893c

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Moving GPU process bugs to the new GeckoView::Sandboxing component.