QWinEventNotifier: unlink from event dispatcher

Instead of multiplexing all notifications into a single Qt event for
the event dispatcher, we can send 'WinEventAct' event directly for each
notifier which activated. This trick improves the performance (esp.
on a large number of events) and allows us to remove notifiers handling
from the event dispatcher completely.

As an alternative to sending Qt events, use of Windows' APC queue in
conjunction with waking up the Qt event loop from within the Windows
thread pool has been considered. However, that would lead to signal
emission asynchronous to the Qt event loop's operation, which is not
acceptable.

Thanks to Oswald Buddenhagen for the proposed idea.

[ChangeLog][QtCore][QAbstractEventDispatcher] The
{un}registerEventNotifier() member functions have been removed.
QWinEventNotifier is no longer needed to be registered in the
event dispatcher.

Change-Id: I140892fb909eaae0eabf2e07ebabcab78c43841c
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qabstracteventdispatcher.h b/src/corelib/kernel/qabstracteventdispatcher.h
index 9a0a049ed4..717fdc8984 100644
--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qabstracteventdispatcher.h
+++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qabstracteventdispatcher.h
@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ class QAbstractNativeEventFilter;
 class QAbstractEventDispatcherPrivate;
 class QSocketNotifier;
 
-#if defined(Q_OS_WIN) || defined(Q_CLANG_QDOC)
-class QWinEventNotifier;
-#endif
-
 class Q_CORE_EXPORT QAbstractEventDispatcher : public QObject
 {
     Q_OBJECT
@@ -88,11 +84,6 @@ public:
 
     virtual int remainingTime(int timerId) = 0;
 
-#if defined(Q_OS_WIN) || defined(Q_CLANG_QDOC)
-    virtual bool registerEventNotifier(QWinEventNotifier *notifier) = 0;
-    virtual void unregisterEventNotifier(QWinEventNotifier *notifier) = 0;
-#endif
-
     virtual void wakeUp() = 0;
     virtual void interrupt() = 0;