1911481 - Proxied Releases suffer from high event loop overhead

Status: ASSIGNED

(Core :: XPCOM, enhancement)

Description

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

Proxied releases in the parent show up more than we'd like. This is largely because of the overhead of cycling through the whole event loop for each of them. What we can do here is add a lightweight task that runs out of order with the regular event loop and at a lower priority. In addition we want to make sure we never spend more than a certain amount of time processing them. This would cause us to miss messages delivered to the native event loop.

Comment 1

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

Attachment: Bug 1911481 - Part 1: Add mechanism to TaskController for dispatching FastTasks. r=nika,smaug

Comment 2

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

Attachment: Bug 1911481 - Part 2: Make proxied releases use the new FastTask mechanism. r=nika

Depends on D218508

Comment 3

[Mayank Bansal]

The slow TimeStamp should hopefully be fixed by bug 1995254.