2 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/components/layout_thread/dom_wrapper.rs b/components/layout_thread/dom_wrapper.rs
index cbd0df1f9a4..404200e9ae0 100644
--- a/components/layout_thread/dom_wrapper.rs
+++ b/components/layout_thread/dom_wrapper.rs
@@ -712,21 +712,6 @@ impl<'le> ServoLayoutElement<'le> {
     pub unsafe fn set_has_snapshot(&self) {
         self.as_node().node.set_flag(NodeFlags::HAS_SNAPSHOT, true);
     }
-
-    pub unsafe fn note_dirty_descendant(&self) {
-        use selectors::Element;
-
-        let mut current = Some(*self);
-        while let Some(el) = current {
-            // FIXME(bholley): Ideally we'd have the invariant that any element
-            // with has_dirty_descendants also has the bit set on all its
-            // ancestors.  However, there are currently some corner-cases where
-            // we get that wrong.  I have in-flight patches to fix all this
-            // stuff up, so we just always propagate this bit for now.
-            el.set_dirty_descendants();
-            current = el.parent_element();
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 fn as_element<'dom>(node: LayoutDom<'dom, Node>) -> Option<ServoLayoutElement<'dom>> {
diff --git a/components/layout_thread/lib.rs b/components/layout_thread/lib.rs
index 4c458065986..453067de4cd 100644
--- a/components/layout_thread/lib.rs
+++ b/components/layout_thread/lib.rs
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ use script_traits::{ConstellationControlMsg, LayoutControlMsg, LayoutMsg as Cons
 use script_traits::{DrawAPaintImageResult, IFrameSizeMsg, PaintWorkletError, WindowSizeType};
 use script_traits::{Painter, WebrenderIpcSender};
 use script_traits::{ScrollState, UntrustedNodeAddress, WindowSizeData};
-use selectors::Element;
 use servo_arc::Arc as ServoArc;
 use servo_atoms::Atom;
 use servo_config::opts;
@@ -1455,13 +1454,6 @@ impl LayoutThread {
         for (el, restyle) in restyles {
             let el = unsafe { ServoLayoutNode::new(&el).as_element().unwrap() };
 
-            // Propagate the descendant bit up the ancestors. Do this before
-            // the restyle calculation so that we can also do it for new
-            // unstyled nodes, which the descendants bit helps us find.
-            if let Some(parent) = el.parent_element() {
-                unsafe { parent.note_dirty_descendant() };
-            }
-
             // If we haven't styled this node yet, we don't need to track a
             // restyle.
             let mut style_data = match el.mutate_data() {