Timers are scheduled by a dedicated per-constellation thread.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/components/script/dom/bindings/global.rs b/components/script/dom/bindings/global.rs
index d45d3b154b1..cfb1acb99e9 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/bindings/global.rs
+++ b/components/script/dom/bindings/global.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ use msg::constellation_msg::{ConstellationChan, PipelineId, WorkerId};
 use net_traits::ResourceTask;
 use profile_traits::mem;
 use script_task::{CommonScriptMsg, ScriptChan, ScriptPort, ScriptTask};
+use script_traits::TimerEventRequest;
+use std::sync::mpsc::Sender;
 use url::Url;
 use util::mem::HeapSizeOf;
 
@@ -96,6 +98,14 @@ impl<'a> GlobalRef<'a> {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Get the scheduler channel to request timer events.
+    pub fn scheduler_chan(&self) -> Sender<TimerEventRequest> {
+        match *self {
+            GlobalRef::Window(window) => window.scheduler_chan(),
+            GlobalRef::Worker(worker) => worker.scheduler_chan(),
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Get an `IpcSender<ScriptToDevtoolsControlMsg>` to send messages to Devtools
     /// task when available.
     pub fn devtools_chan(&self) -> Option<IpcSender<ScriptToDevtoolsControlMsg>> {