[PATCH 3/5] server: Move the cursor position and last change time to the shared data.

[Huw Davies]

On 19 Nov 2020, at 13:42, Rémi Bernon <rbernon at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> On 11/19/20 2:09 PM, Huw Davies wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Huw Davies <huw at codeweavers.com>
>> ---
>>  server/protocol.def |  9 ++++++-
>>  server/queue.c      | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>>  server/user.h       |  3 ---
>>  3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>> 
> Just a quick thought, as the shared desktop data struct is flagged volatile, this will probably prevent optimizations on the server-side reads too, maybe we could avoid that and only make the writes volatile?

Hmm, interesting idea.  That would most likely involve volatile casts
while writing (or macros to hide them), neither of which are
particularly appealing.  I'd be tempted to wait to see if this becomes
a real issue before doing this, but I'm open to being persuaded otherwise.

Huw.