gnome-settings-daemon/0004-account-don-t-poll-more-frequently-than-notification.patch

From ff98c03c88e53041dcc861de3b3a3351d55297fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:39:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] account: don't poll more frequently than notification
 period

At the moment, if an account has no reason to receive a notification,
the account plugin ends up polling continuously, desperately,
and unsuccessfully trying to find a reason to notify. That leads
to unnecessary CPU utilization.

The reason is an apparent think-o in the code.  The code tracks
the last time a notification was shown, so it knows when to show
the next notification later, even if the notification period, or
account policy is updated by the admin in the interim.

The problem is that it's wrong to look at the last notification
time if there's no reason to show a notification.  In that case
the wakeup is merely to poll updates on the account policy.

This commit addresses the problem by only looking at the previous
notification time, if it was within the current notification period.
---
 plugins/account/gsd-account-manager.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/account/gsd-account-manager.c b/plugins/account/gsd-account-manager.c
index ff054edd..b48c0fe8 100644
--- a/plugins/account/gsd-account-manager.c
+++ b/plugins/account/gsd-account-manager.c
@@ -207,65 +207,73 @@ out:
 }
 
 static gboolean
 set_policy_number (gint64 *destination,
                    gint64  source)
 {
         if (*destination == source)
                 return FALSE;
 
         *destination = source;
         return TRUE;
 }
 
 static gboolean
 on_notify_period_elapsed (GsdAccountManager *manager)
 {
         manager->priv->notify_period_timeout_id = 0;
         fetch_password_expiration_policy (manager);
         return G_SOURCE_REMOVE;
 }
 
 static void
 queue_periodic_timeout (GsdAccountManager *manager)
 {
         if (manager->priv->notify_period_timeout_id != 0) {
                 g_source_remove (manager->priv->notify_period_timeout_id);
                 manager->priv->notify_period_timeout_id = 0;
         }
 
         if (manager->priv->notify_period > 0) {
-                gint64 already_elapsed_time;
+                gint64 seconds_since_last_notification;
+                guint seconds_between_notifications;
+                guint seconds_until_next_notification;
 
-                already_elapsed_time = MAX (0, (g_get_monotonic_time () - manager->priv->last_notify_time) / G_USEC_PER_SEC);
+                seconds_since_last_notification = MAX (0, (g_get_monotonic_time () - manager->priv->last_notify_time) / G_USEC_PER_SEC);
+                seconds_between_notifications = manager->priv->notify_period * 60;
 
-                manager->priv->notify_period_timeout_id = g_timeout_add_seconds (MAX (0, manager->priv->notify_period * 60 - already_elapsed_time),
+                if (seconds_since_last_notification > seconds_between_notifications)
+                        seconds_until_next_notification = seconds_between_notifications;
+                else
+                        seconds_until_next_notification = seconds_between_notifications - seconds_since_last_notification;
+
+                manager->priv->notify_period_timeout_id = g_timeout_add_seconds (seconds_until_next_notification,
                                                                                  (GSourceFunc) on_notify_period_elapsed,
                                                                                  manager);
         }
 }
 
 static void
 on_got_password_expiration_policy (GsdAccountsUser *accounts_user_proxy,
                                    GAsyncResult    *res,
                                    gpointer         user_data)
 {
         GsdAccountManager *manager = user_data;
         g_autoptr(GError)  error = NULL;
         gboolean           succeeded;
         gint64             expiration_time;
         gint64             last_change_time;
         gint64             min_days_between_changes;
         gint64             max_days_between_changes;
         gint64             days_to_warn;
         gint64             days_after_expiration_until_lock;
 
         gnome_settings_profile_start (NULL);
         succeeded = gsd_accounts_user_call_get_password_expiration_policy_finish (accounts_user_proxy,
                                                                                   &expiration_time,
                                                                                   &last_change_time,
                                                                                   &min_days_between_changes,
                                                                                   &max_days_between_changes,
                                                                                   &days_to_warn,
                                                                                   &days_after_expiration_until_lock,
                                                                                   res,
                                                                                   &error);
-- 
2.21.0