Browser Plugin: Update Guest WebContents Visibility on BrowserPlugin Visiblity Change.

BUG=140310
Test=BrowserPluginHostTest.{EmbedderVisiblityChanged, BrowserPluginVisibilityChanged}

Review URL: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/11066032

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@160660 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/content/browser/browser_plugin/browser_plugin_guest.h b/content/browser/browser_plugin/browser_plugin_guest.h
index 985064c1..3c8254f 100644
--- a/content/browser/browser_plugin/browser_plugin_guest.h
+++ b/content/browser/browser_plugin/browser_plugin_guest.h
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ class CONTENT_EXPORT BrowserPluginGuest : public NotificationObserver,
     embedder_render_process_host_ = render_process_host;
   }
 
+  bool visible() const { return visible_; }
+
   // NotificationObserver implementation.
   virtual void Observe(int type,
                        const NotificationSource& source,
@@ -141,6 +143,23 @@ class CONTENT_EXPORT BrowserPluginGuest : public NotificationObserver,
   // accepting touch events.
   void SetIsAcceptingTouchEvents(bool accept);
 
+  // The guest WebContents is visible if both its embedder is visible and
+  // the browser plugin element is visible. If either one is not then the
+  // WebContents is marked as hidden. A hidden WebContents will consume
+  // fewer GPU and CPU resources.
+  //
+  // When the every WebContents in a RenderProcessHost is hidden, it will lower
+  // the priority of the process (see RenderProcessHostImpl::WidgetHidden).
+  //
+  // It will also send a message to the guest renderer process to cleanup
+  // resources such as dropping back buffers and adjusting memory limits (if in
+  // compositing mode, see CCLayerTreeHost::setVisible).
+  //
+  // Additionally it will slow down Javascript execution and garbage collection.
+  // See RenderThreadImpl::IdleHandler (executed when hidden) and
+  // RenderThreadImpl::IdleHandlerInForegroundTab (executed when visible).
+  void SetVisibility(bool embedder_visible, bool visible);
+
   // Exposes the protected web_contents() from WebContentsObserver.
   WebContents* GetWebContents();
 
@@ -214,6 +233,7 @@ class CONTENT_EXPORT BrowserPluginGuest : public NotificationObserver,
   IDMap<RenderViewHost> pending_updates_;
   int pending_update_counter_;
   base::TimeDelta guest_hang_timeout_;
+  bool visible_;
 
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(BrowserPluginGuest);
 };