Two years later... Upstream has now offered some thoughts. Although I don't think this bug is around any more(?)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86366 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377872 Title: Double-buffered compositing performance is sometimes very poor (30 FPS) on intel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mesa/+bug/1377872/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs