I was trying to implement `testRunner.renderingUpdate()` so you could write a test like: window.addEventListener('load', async () => { await testRunner.renderingUpdate(); debug('rendering update complete'); // do stuff }, false); However, that turned out have flakey behavior with respect to the ordering of rAF callbacks: window.addEventListener('load', async () => { requestAnimationFrame(() => { debug('requestAnimationFrame callback'); requestAnimationFrame(() => { debug('second requestAnimationFrame callback, which should always come after the "rendering update complete"'); }); }); await testRunner.renderingUpdate(); debug('rendering update complete'); }, false); Sometimes the second rAF callback happened before "rendering update complete" and sometimes after. This depended on the timing of the microtask callbacks fired from WindowEventLoop, which I believe handles the resume of the load function when the `renderingUpdate` Promise is resolved. The source of unpredictability which I identified was the timing of the zero-delay timer in WindowEventLoop. The incorrect behavior happened when the WindowEventLoop timer fired between `TiledCoreAnimationDrawingArea::scheduleRenderingUpdateRunLoopObserver()` and `TiledCoreAnimationDrawingArea::updateRenderingRunLoopCallback()`. There's already code that tries to avoid timing firing delaying the runloop observer for long periods of time (`breakToAllowRenderingUpdate()`), so we can piggyback off that to avoid this timer firing between the scheduling and the fire of the CFRunLoopObserver that controls the rendering update.
<rdar://problem/103575958>
Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/7944
Turns out that this affects test behavior, I think largely because at Document::finishedParsing() time we call WebPage::unfreezeLayerTree() which triggers a rendering update, so the first WindowEventLoop opportunity is postponed. This means that a test with a zero-delay JS timer ends up running that timer logic before the WindowEventLoop task, instead of after.
Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/8173
Not pursuing this any more.