When the browser receives a CompositorFrame from the renderer, it looks into its metadata. See RenderWidgetHostImpl::SubmitCompositorFrame, RenderWidgetHostView*::SubmitCompositorFrame, DelegatedFrameHost(Android)::SubmitCompositorFrame.
For each member of CompositorFrameMetadata, we need to know:
1) On what platforms it's used.
2) How it's used.
3) If we deliver this information to the browser process separate from the CompositorFrame without synchronization, what will regress and how badly.
Comment 1 by fsamuel@google.com
, Oct 16 2017