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gpui_linux: Fix Wayland flickering under CPU load by skipping redundant surface commit (#54214)
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- [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable

Closes #32792 
Closes #38266 
Closes #54133

Release Notes:

- Fixed graphical corruption that could occur when using Wayland

----

**What**: Fixes flickering on Wayland (Sway/wlroots) under CPU load
(e.g. rust-analyzer running). The bug only reproduces in release builds
- debug builds are too slow to hit the race window.

Environment where this was reproduced: Intel GPU (both Xe KMD and i915),
Mesa 26.0.4, Sway 1.11.

**Why**: When wgpu presents a frame on Wayland+Vulkan, it calls
`vkQueuePresentKHR,` which - as required by the Vulkan spec -
synchronously issues `wl_surface.attach`, `wl_surface.damage`, and
`wl_surface.commit` to the compositor before returning. The commit also
picks up any pending frame callbacks.

Zed's `completed_frame()` independently calls `state.surface.commit()`.
This is a redundant second commit on the same surface. Under load, the
Wayland socket dispatch can be delayed enough that both commits are in
flight in close succession, and the ordering becomes timing-dependent.
When Zed's commit reaches the compositor before Mesa's attach+commit
sequence has been fully flushed, the compositor sees a commit with no
buffer attached, fires `wl_callback::Done` immediately, and Zed starts
the next frame too early - Mesa's real buffer arrives late, causing the
visible flicker.

Under no load, Mesa's synchronous commit consistently reaches the
compositor first, so the bug doesn't appear.

**Fix**: Track whether `renderer.draw()` actually called
`frame.present()`. When it did, Mesa owns the `wl_surface.commit()` for
that frame - skip Zed's commit in `completed_frame()`. Only commit
ourselves when wgpu didn't present (surface not configured, lost,
occluded, etc.) - in those cases Mesa won't commit, and we need to keep
the frame callback alive.

---------

Co-authored-by: Benjamin Laib <b5l@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: John Tur <john-tur@outlook.com>
2026-05-06 03:40:02 +00:00
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