X Synchronization Extension Protocol
X Consortium Standard
X Version 11, Release 6.6.84
TimGlauert
Olivetti Research/MultiWorks
Dave
Carver
Digital Equipment Corporation, MIT/Project Athena
Jim
Gettys
Digital Equipment Corporation, Cambridge Research Laboratory
David
Wiggins
X Consortium, Inc.
James
Jones
NVIDIA Corporation
X Consortium Standard
1991
Olivetti Research Limited, Cambridge England and
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
1991X Consortium
2010NVIDIA Corporation
Version 3.1
X Consortium
X Version 11, Release 6.8
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Synchronization Protocol
The core X protocol makes no guarantees about the relative order of execution
of requests for different clients. This means that any synchronization between
clients must be done at the client level in an operating system-dependent and
network-dependent manner. Even if there was an accepted standard for such
synchronization, the use of a network introduces unpredictable delays between
the synchronization of the clients and the delivery of the resulting requests
to the X server.
The core X protocol also makes no guarantees about the time at which requests
are executed, which means that all clients with real-time constraints must
implement their timing on the host computer. Any such timings are subject to
error introduced by delays within the operating system and network and are
inefficient because of the need for round-trip requests that keep the client
and server synchronized.
The synchronization extension provides primitives that allow synchronization
between clients to take place entirely within the X server. This removes any
error introduced by the network and makes it possible to synchronize clients
on different hosts running different operating systems. This is important for
multimedia applications, where audio, video, and graphics data streams are
being synchronized. The extension also provides internal timers within the
X server to which client requests can be synchronized. This allows simple
animation applications to be implemented without any round-trip requests and
makes best use of buffering within the client, network, and server.
Description
The mechanism used by this extension for synchronization within the X
server is to block the processing of requests from a client until a
specific synchronization condition occurs. When the condition occurs, the
client is released and processing of requests continues. Multiple clients
may block on the same condition to give inter-client synchronization.
Alternatively, a single client may block on a condition such as an animation
frame marker.
The extension adds Counter, Alarm,
and Fence to the set of resources managed by the
server. A counter has a 64-bit integer value that may be increased or
decreased by client requests or by the server internally. A client can block
by sending an Await request that waits until one of a set of synchronization
conditions, called TRIGGERs, becomes TRUE. Alarms generate events when
counter values go through a specified transition. A fence has two possible
states: triggered and not triggered. Client requests can put the fence in
either of these states. A client can block until one of a set of fences
becomes triggered by sending an AwaitFence request. Fences are bound to a
particular screen at creation time.
The CreateCounter request allows a client to create a
Counter that can be changed by explicit
SetCounter and ChangeCounter
requests. These can be used to implement synchronization between different
clients.
There are some counters, called System Counters, that
are changed by the server internally rather than by client requests. The
effect of any change to a system counter is not visible until the server
has finished processing the current request. In other words, system
counters are apparently updated in the gaps between the execution of
requests rather than during the actual execution of a request. The extension
provides a system counter that advances with the server time as defined by
the core protocol, and it may also provide counters that advance with the
real-world time or that change each time the CRT screen is refreshed.
Other extensions may provide their own extension-specific system counters.
The extension provides an Alarm mechanism that allows
clients to receive an event on a regular basis when a particular counter
is changed.
The CreateFence request allows a client to create a
Fence that can be triggered and reset using
TriggerFence and ResetFence
requests, respectively. CreateFence takes a drawable
argument that implies which screen the fence should be created on. The
TriggerFence request changes the fence's state only
after all previous rendering commands affecting objects owned by the given
fence's screen have completed. Note that while fence objects are bound
to a screen and the simple trigger operation provided by this extension
operates at screen granularity, other extensions may add more fine-grained
trigger operations based on any number of events. The screen binding
merely establishes an upper bound for the scope of fence operations.
Types
Please refer to the X11 Protocol specification as this document uses
syntactic conventions established there and references types defined there.
The following new types are used by the extension.
INT64: 64-bit signed integer
COUNTER: XID
VALUETYPE: {Absolute,Relative};
TESTTYPE: {PositiveTransition,NegativeTransition,
PositiveComparison,NegativeComparison}
TRIGGER: [
counter:COUNTER,
value-type:VALUETYPE,
wait-value:INT64,
test-type:TESTTYPE
]
WAITCONDITION: [
trigger:TRIGGER,
event-threshold:INT64
]
SYSTEMCOUNTER: [
name:STRING8,
counter:COUNTER,
resolution:INT64
]
ALARM: XID
ALARMSTATE: {Active,Inactive,Destroyed}
FENCE: XID
The COUNTER type defines the client-side handle on a server
Counter. The value of a counter is an INT64.
The TRIGGER type defines a test on a counter that is either TRUE or FALSE. The
value of the test is determined by the combination of a test value, the value
of the counter, and the specified test-type.
The test value for a trigger is calculated using the value-type and
wait-value fields when the trigger is initialized. If the value-type field
is not one of the named VALUETYPE constants, the request that initialized the
trigger will return a Value error. If the value-type
field is Absolute, the test value is given by the
wait-value field. If the value-type field is Relative,
the test value is obtained by adding the wait-value field to the value of the
counter. If the resulting test value would lie outside the range for an
INT64, the request that initialized the trigger will return a
Value error. If counter is None
and the value-type is Relative, the request that
initialized the trigger will return a Match error. If
counter is not None and does not name a valid counter, a Counter error is
generated.
If the test-type is PositiveTransition, the trigger is
initialized to FALSE, and it will become TRUE when the counter changes from
a value less than the test value to a value greater than or equal to the
test value. If the test-type is NegativeTransition,
the trigger is initialize to FALSE, and it will become TRUE when the counter
changes from a value greater than the test value to a value less than or
equal to the test value. If the test-type is
PositiveComparison, the trigger is TRUE if the
counter is greater than or equal to the test value and FALSE otherwise. If the
test-type is NegativeComparison, the trigger is TRUE
if the counter is less than or equal to the test value and FALSE otherwise.
If the test-type is not one of the named TESTTYPE constants, the request that
initialized the trigger will return a Value error. A trigger with a counter
value of None and a valid test-type is always TRUE.
The WAITCONDITION type is simply a trigger with an associated event-threshold.
The event threshold is used by the Await request to
decide whether or not to generate an event to the client after the trigger has
become TRUE. By setting the event-threshold to an appropriate value, it is
possible to detect the situation where an Await request
was processed after the TRIGGER became TRUE, which usually indicates that
the server is not processing requests as fast as the client expects.
The SYSTEMCOUNTER type provides the client with information about a
SystemCounter. The name field is the textual name of
the counter that identifies the counter to the client. The counter field
is the client-side handle that should be used in requests that require a
counter. The resolution field gives the approximate step size of the system
counter. This is a hint to the client
that the extension may not be able to resolve two wait conditions with test
values that differ by less than this step size. A microsecond clock, for
example, may advance in steps of 64 microseconds, so a counter based on this
clock would have a resolution of 64.
The only system counter that is guaranteed to be present is called SERVERTIME,
which counts milliseconds from some arbitrary starting point. The least
significant 32 bits of this counter track the value of Time used by the
server in Events and Requests. Other system counters may be provided by
different implementations of the extension. The X Consortium will maintain a
registry of system counter names to avoid collisions in the name space.
An ALARM is the client-side handle on an Alarm resource.
The FENCE type defines the client-side handle on a server
Fence. A fence can only be in one of two states,
represented by a BOOL. If the value is TRUE, the fence is in the triggered
state. Otherwise, the fence is in the not triggered state.
Errors
Counter
This error is generated if the value for a COUNTER argument in a request
does not name a defined COUNTER.
Alarm
This error is generated if the value for an ALARM argument in a request
does not name a defined ALARM.
Fence
This error is generated if the value for a FENCE argument in a request
does not name a defined FENCE.
Requests
Initialize
version-major,version-minor: CARD8
=>
version-major,version-minor: CARD8
This request must be executed before any other requests for this extension. If a
client violates this rule, the results of all SYNC requests that it issues are
undefined. The request takes the version number of the extension that the
client wishes to use and returns the actual version number being implemented
by the extension for this client. The extension may return different
version numbers to a client depending of the version number supplied by
that client. This request should be executed only once for each client
connection.
Given two different versions of the SYNC protocol, v1 and v2, v1 is
compatible with v2 if and only if v1.version_major = v2.version_major
and v1.version_minor <= v2.version_minor. Compatible means that the
functionality is fully supported in an identical fashion in the two versions.
This document describes major version 3, minor version 1 of the SYNC protocol.
ListSystemCounters
=>
system-counters: LISTofSYSTEMCOUNTER
Errors: Alloc
This request returns a list of all the system counters that are available at
the time the request is executed, which includes the system counters
that are maintained by other extensions. The list returned by this
request may change as counters are created and destroyed by other extensions.
CreateCounter
id: COUNTER
initial-value: INT64
Errors: IDChoice,Alloc
This request creates a counter and assigns the specified id to it. The counter
value is initialized to the specified initial-value and there are no clients
waiting on the counter.
DestroyCounter
counter: COUNTER
Errors: Counter,Access
This request destroys the given counter and sets the counter fields for all
triggers that specify this counter to None. All clients
waiting on the counter are released and a CounterNotify
event with the destroyed field set to TRUE is sent to each waiting client,
regardless of the event-threshold. All alarms specifying the counter become
Inactive and an AlarmNotify
event with a state field of Inactive is generated. A
counter is destroyed automatically when the connection to the creating client
is closed down if the close-down mode is Destroy. An
Access error is generated if counter is a system
counter. A Counter error is generated if counter does
not name a valid counter.
QueryCounter
counter: COUNTER
=>
value: INT64
Errors: Counter
This request returns the current value of the given counter or a generates
Counter error if counter does not name a valid counter.
Await
wait-list: LISTofWAITCONDITION
Errors: Counter,Alloc,Value
When this request is executed, the triggers in the wait-list are initialized
using the wait-value and value-type fields, as described in the definition of
TRIGGER above. The processing of further requests for the client is blocked
until one or more of the triggers becomes TRUE. This may happen immediately,
as a result of the initialization, or at some later time, as a result of
a subsequent SetCounter,
ChangeCounter or
DestroyCounter request.
A Value error is generated if wait-list is empty.
When the client becomes unblocked, each trigger is checked to determine
whether a CounterNotify event should be generated.
The difference between the counter and the test value is calculated by
subtracting the test value from the value of the counter. If the test-type
is PositiveTransition or
PositiveComparison, a
CounterNotify event is generated if the difference is
at least event-threshold. If the test-type is
NegativeTransition or
NegativeComparison, a
CounterNotify event is generated if the difference
is at most event-threshold. If the difference lies outside the range for an
INT64, an event is not generated.
This threshold check is made for each trigger in the list and a
CounterNotify event is generated for every trigger for
which the check succeeds. The check for
CounterNotify events is performed even if one of the
triggers is TRUE when the request is first executed. Note that a
CounterNotify event may be generated for a trigger
that is FALSE if there are multiple triggers in the request. A
CounterNotify event with the destroyed flag set to
TRUE is always generated if the counter for one of the triggers is
destroyed.
ChangeCounter
counter: COUNTER
amount: INT64
Errors: Counter,Access,Value
This request changes the given counter by adding amount to the current
counter value. If the change to this counter satisfies a trigger for which a client
is waiting, that client is unblocked and one or more
CounterNotify events may be generated. If the change to
the counter satisfies the trigger for an alarm, an
AlarmNotify event is generated and the
alarm is updated. An Access error is generated if
counter is a system counter. A Counter error is
generated if counter does not name a valid counter. If the resulting value
for the counter would be outside the range for an INT64, a
Value error is generated and the counter is not changed.
It should be noted that all the clients whose triggers are satisfied by this
change are unblocked, so this request cannot be used to implement mutual
exclusion.
SetCounter
counter: COUNTER
value: INT64
Errors: Counter,Access
This request sets the value of the given counter to value. The effect is
equivalent to executing the appropriate ChangeCounter request to change
the counter value to value. An Access error is generated if counter names a
system counter. A Counter error is generated if counter does not name a valid
counter.
CreateAlarm
id: ALARM
values-mask: CARD32
values-list: LISTofVALUE
left">Errors: IDChoice,Counter,Match,Value,Alloc
This request creates an alarm and assigns the identifier id to it. The
values-mask and values-list specify the attributes that are to be explicitly
initialized. The attributes for an Alarm and their defaults are:
Attribute
Type
Default
trigger
TRIGGER
counter
None
value-type
Absolute
value
0
test-type
PositiveComparison
delta
INT64
1
events
BOOL
TRUE
The trigger is initialized as described in the definition of TRIGGER, with an
error being generated if necessary.
If the counter is None, the state of the alarm is set
to Inactive, else it is set to Active.
Whenever the trigger becomes TRUE, either as a result of this request or as the
result of a SetCounter,
ChangeCounter, DestroyCounter, or
ChangeAlarm request, an
AlarmNotify event is generated and the alarm is
updated. The alarm is updated by repeatedly adding delta to the value of the
trigger and reinitializing it until it becomes FALSE. If this update would
cause value to fall outside the range for an INT64, or if the counter
value is None, or if the delta is 0 and test-type
is PositiveComparison or
NegativeComparison, no change is made to value and
the alarm state is changed to Inactive before the
event is generated. No further events are generated by an
Inactive alarm until a ChangeAlarm
or DestroyAlarm request is executed.
If the test-type is PositiveComparison or
PositiveTransition and delta is less than zero, or
if the test-type is NegativeComparison or
NegativeTransition and delta is greater than zero,
a Match error is generated.
The events value enables or disables delivery of
AlarmNotify events
to the requesting client. The alarm keeps a separate event flag for
each client so that other clients may select to receive events from this
alarm.
An AlarmNotify event is always generated at some time
after the execution of a CreateAlarm request. This
will happen immediately if the trigger is TRUE, or it will happen later
when the trigger becomes TRUE or the Alarm is destroyed.
ChangeAlarm
id: ALARM
values-mask: CARD32
values-list: LISTofVALUE
Errors: Alarm,Counter,Value,Match
This request changes the parameters of an Alarm. All of the parameters
specified for the CreateAlarm request may be changed
using this request. The trigger is reinitialized and an
AlarmNotify event is generated if appropriate, as
explained in the description of the CreateAlarm request.
Changes to the events flag affect the event delivery to the requesting
client only and may be used by a client to select or deselect event delivery
from an alarm created by another client.
The order in which attributes are verified and altered is server-dependent.
If an error is generated, a subset of the attributes may have been altered.
DestroyAlarm
alarm: ALARM
Errors: Alarm
This request destroys an alarm. An alarm is automatically destroyed when the
creating client is closed down if the close-down mode is
Destroy. When an alarm is destroyed, an
AlarmNotify event is generated with a state value of
Destroyed.
QueryAlarm
alarm: ALARM
=>
trigger: TRIGGER
delta: INT64
events: ALARMEVENTMASK
state: ALARMSTATE
Errors: Alarm
This request retrieves the current parameters for an Alarm.
SetPriority
client-resource: XID
priority: INT32
Errors: Match
This request changes the scheduling priority of the client that created
client-resource. If client-resource is None, then
the priority for the client making the request is changed. A
Match error is generated if client-resource is not
None and does not name an existing resource in the
server. For any two priority values, A and B, A is higher priority if
and only if A is greater than B.
The priority of a client is set to 0 when the initial client connection is
made.
The effect of different client priorities depends on the particular
implementation of the extension, and in some cases it may have no effect at
all. However, the intention is that higher priority clients will have
their requests executed before those of lower priority clients.
For most animation applications, it is desirable that animation clients be
given priority over nonrealtime clients. This improves the smoothness of the
animation on a loaded server. Because a server is free to implement very strict
priorities, processing requests for the highest priority client to the
exclusion of all others, it is important that a client that may potentially
monopolize the whole server, such as an animation that produces continuous
output as fast as it can with no rate control, is run at low rather than high
priority.
GetPriority
client-resource: XID
=>
priority: INT32
Errors: Match
This request returns the scheduling priority of the client that created
client-resource. If client-resource is None, then the
priority for the client making the request is returned. A
Match error is generated if client-resource is
not None and does not name an existing resource in the
server.
CreateFence
drawable: DRAWABLE
id: FENCE
initially-triggered: BOOL
Errors: IDChoice,Alloc
This request creates a fence on the screen associated with drawable and
assigns the specified id to it. The fence is in the triggered state iff
initially-triggered is TRUE. There are no clients waiting on the fence.
TriggerFence
fence: FENCE
Errors: Fence
This request puts the given fence in the triggered state after all rendering
from previous requests that affects resources owned by the fence's screen has
completed. This includes requests from other clients if those requests have
been dispatched. This request has no visible effects if the fence was already
in the triggered state. A Fence error is generated if
fence does not name a valid fence.
Note that the given fence's state is not necessarily directly modified by this
request. The state change need only be queued to occur after the required
rendering has completed. Clients should take care to not assume the fence will
be in the triggered state in subsequent requests, such as those that operate
on the given fence immediately. AwaitFence should first
be issued if subsequent requests require the fence to be in the triggered
state.
ResetFence
fence: FENCE
Errors: Fence,Match
This request immediately puts the given fence in the not triggered state.
A Match error is generated if the fence is not in the
triggered state. A Fence error is generated if fence
does not name a valid fence.
See the warnings above regarding TriggerFence's delayed
effect. In particular, a TriggerFence request
immediately followed by a ResetFence request is likely
to result in a Match error. An
AwaitFence request should be issued between the two.
DestroyFence
fence: FENCE
Errors: Fence
This request destroys the given fence. All clients waiting on this fence are
released. A fence is destroyed automatically when the connection to the client
that created the fence is closed if the close-down mode is
DestroyAll. A Fence error is
generated if fence does not name a valid fence.
QueryFence
fence: FENCE
=>
triggered: BOOL
Errors: Fence
This request returns TRUE if the given fence is triggered, or FALSE if it
is not triggered. A Fence error is generated if
fence does not name a valid fence.
AwaitFence
fence-list: LISTofFENCE
Errors: Fence,Alloc
When this request is executed, the processing of further requests for the
client is blocked until one or more of the fences in fence-list reaches the
triggered state. If any of the fences are already in the triggered state,
request processing resumes immediately. A Fence error
is generated if any member of fence-list does not name a valid fence.
Events
CounterNotify
counter: COUNTER
wait-value: INT64
counter-value: INT64
time: TIME
count: CARD16
destroyed: BOOL
CounterNotify events may be generated when a client
becomes unblocked after an Await request has been
processed. The wait-value is the value being waited for, and counter-value
is the actual value of the counter at the time the event was generated.
The destroyed flag is TRUE if this request was generated as the result of
the destruction of the counter and FALSE otherwise. The time is the server
time at which the event was generated.
When a client is unblocked, all the CounterNotify
events for the Await request are generated contiguously. If count is 0,
there are no more events to follow for this request. If count is n,
there are at least n more events to follow.
AlarmNotify
alarm: ALARM
counter-value: INT64
alarm-value: INT64
state: ALARMSTATE
time: TIME
An AlarmNotify event is generated when an alarm is
triggered. alarm-value is the test value of the trigger in the alarm when
it was triggered, counter-value is the value of the counter that triggered
the alarm, and time is the server time at which the event was generated.
The state is the new state of the alarm. If state is
Inactive, no more events will be generated by this
alarm until a ChangeAlarm request is executed, the alarm
is destroyed, or the counter for the alarm is destroyed.
Encoding
Please refer to the X11 Protocol Encoding document as this section uses
syntactic conventions established there and references types defined there.
The name of this extension is "SYNC".
Encoding New Types
The following new types are used by the extension.
ALARM: CARD32
ALARMSTATE:
0 Active
1 Inactive
2 Destroyed
COUNTER: CARD32
INT64: 64-bit signed integer
SYSTEMCOUNTER:
4 COUNTER counter
8 INT64 resolution
2 n length of name in bytes
n STRING8 name
p pad,p=pad(n+2)
TESTTYPE:
0 PositiveTransition
1 NegativeTransition
2 PositiveComparison
3 NegativeComparison
TRIGGER:
4 COUNTER counter
4 VALUETYPE wait-type
8 INT64 wait-value
4 TESTTYPE test-type VALUETYPE:
0 Absolute
1 Relative
WAITCONDITION:
20 TRIGGER trigger
8 INT64 event threshold
FENCE: CARD32
An INT64 is encoded in 8 bytes with the most significant 4 bytes
first followed by the least significant 4 bytes. Within these 4-byte
groups, the byte ordering determined during connection setup is used.
Encoding Errors
Counter
1 0 Error
1 Base + 0 code
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 CARD32 bad counter
2 CARD16 minor opcode
1 CARD8 major opcode
21 unused
Alarm
1 0 Error
1 Base + 1 code
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 CARD32 bad alarm
2 CARD16 minor opcode
1 CARD8 major opcode
21 unused
Fence
1 0 Error
1 Base + 2 code
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 CARD32 bad fence
2 CARD16 minor opcode
1 CARD8 major opcode
21 unused
Encoding Requests
Initialize
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 0 minor opcode
2 2 request length
1 CARD8 major version
1 CARD8 minor version
2 unused
=>
1 1 Reply
1 unused
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 0 reply length
1 CARD8 major version
1 CARD8 minor version
2 unused
20 unused
ListSystemCounters
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 1 minor opcode
2 1 request length
=>
1 1 Reply
1 unused
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 0 reply length
4 INT32 list length
20 unused
4n list of SYSTEMCOUNTER system counters
CreateCounter
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 2 minor opcode
2 4 request length
4 COUNTER id
8 INT64 initial value
DestroyCounter
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 6 minor opcodeA previous version of this document gave an incorrect minor opcode
2 2 request length
4 COUNTER counter
=>
1 1 Reply
1 unused
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 0 reply length
8 INT64 counter value
16 unused
Await
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 7 minor opcodeA previous version of this document gave an incorrect minor opcode.
2 1 + 7*n request length
28n LISTofWAITCONDITION wait conditions
ChangeCounter
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 4 minor opcodeA previous version of this document gave an incorrect minor opcode.
2 4 request length
4 COUNTER counter
8 INT64 amount
SetCounter
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 3 minor opcodeA previous version of this document gave an incorrect minor opcode.
2 4 request length
4 COUNTER counter
8 INT64 value
CreateAlarm
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 8 minor opcode
2 3+n request length
4 ALARM id
4 BITMASK values mask
#x00000001 counter
#x00000002 value-type
#x00000004 value
#x00000008 test-type
#x00000010 delta
#x00000020 events
4n LISTofVALUE values
VALUES
4 COUNTER counter
4 VALUETYPE value-type
8 INT64 value
4 TESTTYPE test-type
8 INT64 delta
4 BOOL events
ChangeAlarm
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 9 minor opcode
2 3+n request length
4 ALARM id
4 BITMASK values mask
encodings as for CreateAlarm
4n LISTofVALUE values
encodings as for CreateAlarm
DestroyAlarm
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 11 minor opcodeA previous version of this document gave an incorrect minor opcode.
2 2 request length
4 ALARM alarm
QueryAlarm
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 10 minor opcodeA previous version of this document gave an incorrect minor opcode.
2 2 request length
4 ALARM alarm
=>
1 1 Reply
1 unused
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 2 reply length
20 TRIGGER trigger
8 INT64 delta
1 BOOL events
1 ALARMSTATE state
2 unused
SetPriority
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 12 minor opcode
2 3 request length
4 CARD32 id
4 INT32 priority
GetPriority
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 13 minor opcode
2 1 request length
4 CARD32 id
=>
1 1 Reply
1 unused
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 0 reply length
4 INT32 priority
20 unused
CreateFence
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 14 minor opcode
2 4 request length
4 DRAWABLE drawable
4 FENCE id
1 BOOL initially triggered
3 unused
TriggerFence
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 15 minor opcode
2 2 request length
4 FENCE id
ResetFence
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 16 minor opcode
2 2 request length
4 FENCE id
DestroyFence
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 17 minor opcode
2 2 request length
4 FENCE id
QueryFence
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 18 minor opcode
2 2 request length
4 FENCE id
=>
1 1 Reply
1 unused
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 0 reply length
1 BOOL triggered
23 unused
AwaitFence
1 CARD8 major opcode
1 19 minor opcode
2 1 + n request length
4*n LISTofFENCE wait conditions
Encoding Events
CounterNotify
1 Base + 0 code
1 0 kind
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 COUNTER counter
8 INT64 wait value
8 INT64 counter value
4 TIME timestamp
2 CARD16 count
1 BOOL destroyed
1 unused
AlarmNotify
1 Base + 1 code
1 1 kind
2 CARD16 sequence number
4 ALARM alarm
8 INT64 counter value
8 INT64 alarm value
4 TIME timestamp
1 ALARMSTATE state
3 unused