Adding a function in order to be able to optimize away a number of locked bus cycles. Callers might for whatever reason want to accumulate unreferences in certain code paths (rcu grace periods, atomic regions ...). This makes it possible to perform the batched unreference more efficiently.
If accepted, I'd prefer patch 1 goes through Dave's DRM tree. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
