Defer the real work in updateCompositingLayers until it's really needed.

Source/core/page/Page.cpp

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 #include "core/page/FrameTree.h"
 #include "core/frame/FrameView.h"
 #include "core/page/PageConsole.h"
 #include "core/page/PageGroup.h"
 #include "core/page/PageLifecycleNotifier.h"
 #include "core/page/PointerLockController.h"
 #include "core/page/Settings.h"
 #include "core/page/ValidationMessageClient.h"
 #include "core/page/scrolling/ScrollingCoordinator.h"
 #include "core/plugins/PluginData.h"
+#include "core/rendering/RenderLayerCompositor.h"
 #include "core/rendering/RenderView.h"
 #include "core/storage/StorageNamespace.h"
 #include "wtf/HashMap.h"
 #include "wtf/RefCountedLeakCounter.h"
 #include "wtf/StdLibExtras.h"
 #include "wtf/text/Base64.h"
 
 namespace WebCore {
 
 static HashSet<Page*>* allPages;
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         m_scrollingCoordinator = ScrollingCoordinator::create(this);
 
     return m_scrollingCoordinator.get();
 }
 
 String Page::mainThreadScrollingReasonsAsText()
 {
     if (Document* document = m_mainFrame->document())
         document->updateLayout();
 
+    if (m_mainFrame->contentRenderer() && m_mainFrame->contentRenderer()->compositor())
+        m_mainFrame->contentRenderer()->compositor()->updateCompositingLayers(CompositingUpdateFinishAllDeferredWork);
+
     if (ScrollingCoordinator* scrollingCoordinator = this->scrollingCoordinator())
         return scrollingCoordinator->mainThreadScrollingReasonsAsText();

[Ian Vollick, 2013/10/17 01:30:25]

Perhaps this could be passed m_mainFrame->view(). Lots of the other
ScrollingCoordinator fns take a FrameView. It could then call UCL.

[shawnsingh, 2013/10/17 01:44:04]

Can you please clarify - are you suggesting that I put the deferred
updateCompositingLayers() call inside of the scrolling coordinator instead?

[Ian Vollick, 2013/10/17 15:24:24]

Yeah. It's a minor point, but I thought it would be nice if Page could continue
to not know about the compositor.

 
     return String();
 }
 
 PassRefPtr<ClientRectList> Page::nonFastScrollableRects(const Frame* frame)
 {
     if (Document* document = m_mainFrame->document())
         document->updateLayout();
 
     Vector<IntRect> rects;
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     , inspectorClient(0)
     , backForwardClient(0)
 {
 }
 
 Page::PageClients::~PageClients()
 {
 }
 
 } // namespace WebCore