Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the drm tree with the drm-misc-fixes tree

From: Christian König <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:31:18 +0100

Hi Stephen,

Am 22.12.21 um 04:50 schrieb Stephen Rothwell:
> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the drm tree got a conflict in:
>
>    drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fence.c
>
> between commit:
>
>    67f74302f45d ("drm/nouveau: wait for the exclusive fence after the shared ones v2")
>
> from the drm-misc-fixes tree and commit:
>
>    40298cb45071 ("drm/nouveau: use the new iterator in nouveau_fence_sync")
>
> from the drm tree.
>
> I fixed it up (I just used the latter version) and can carry the fix as
> necessary. This is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any
> non trivial conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer
> when your tree is submitted for merging.  You may also want to consider
> cooperating with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any
> particularly complex conflicts.
>

That will cause a performance regression in linux-next for nouveau users.

The real fix is already queued up for merging into drm-next. So no 
immediately action item here.

Just keep it in the back of your mind in case any nouveau users starts 
to complain about the performance in linux-next.

Thanks,
Christian.