Bug 575336. Stop flushing out layout on the whole viewmanager tree when layout is flushed on a document and results in invalidates. r=roc

layout/base/nsPresShell.cpp

@@ -4827,12 +4827,6 @@ PresShell::FlushPendingNotifications(mozFlushType aType)
       // immediately
       updateFlags = NS_VMREFRESH_IMMEDIATE;
     }
-    else if (aType < Flush_InterruptibleLayout) {
-      // Not flushing reflows, so do deferred invalidates.  This will keep us
-      // from possibly flushing out reflows due to invalidates being processed
-      // at the end of this view batch.
-      updateFlags = NS_VMREFRESH_DEFERRED;
-    }
     batch.EndUpdateViewBatch(updateFlags);
   }
 }

view/src/nsViewManager.cpp

@@ -1580,27 +1580,7 @@ nsViewManager::FlushPendingInvalidates()
 {
   NS_ASSERTION(IsRootVM(), "Must be root VM for this to be called!\n");
   NS_ASSERTION(mUpdateBatchCnt == 0, "Must not be in an update batch!");
-  // XXXbz this is probably not quite OK yet, if callers can explicitly
-  // DisableRefresh while we have an event posted.
-  // NS_ASSERTION(mRefreshEnabled, "How did we get here?");
 
-  // Let all the view observers of all viewmanagers in this tree know that
-  // we're about to "paint" (this lets them get in their invalidates now so
-  // we don't go through two invalidate-processing cycles).
-  NS_ASSERTION(gViewManagers, "Better have a viewmanagers array!");
-
-  // Make sure to not send WillPaint notifications while scrolling
-  if (mScrollCnt == 0) {
-    // Disable refresh while we notify our view observers, so that if they do
-    // view update batches we don't reenter this code and so that we batch
-    // all of them together.  We don't use
-    // BeginUpdateViewBatch/EndUpdateViewBatch, since that would reenter this
-    // exact code, but we want the effect of a single big update batch.
-    ++mUpdateBatchCnt;
-    CallWillPaintOnObservers();
-    --mUpdateBatchCnt;
-  }
-  
   if (mHasPendingUpdates) {
     ProcessPendingUpdates(mRootView, PR_TRUE);
     mHasPendingUpdates = PR_FALSE;