IO reads, (since unintentional reads can cause such performance
problems by forcing a flush of pending writes).
-I've published a series of "use local structure" patches in a
-[[git_branch|http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~cworth/xf86-video-intel/]]
-and sent that off to the xorg mailing list for review. Here's a chart
-showing the improvement:
+I've published a series of "use local structure" patches in a [git
+branch](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~cworth/xf86-video-intel/) and
+sent that off to the xorg mailing list for review. (Update: These
+improvements have now been pushed out into the upstream repository for
+xf86-video-intel.) Here's a chart showing the improvement:
[[img i965.png]]