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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: [RFC] Async flips
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:33:47 -0500
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The hw supports async flips through the render ring, so why not expose it?
It gives us one more "tear me harder" option we can use in the DDX and
for other cases where simply flipping to the latest buffer is more
important than visual quality.

Jesse