On Thu, 2026-10-29 at 11:23 +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Hi Philipp, hi Christian,

Jo Lucas

> 
> Am Donnerstag, dem 29.10.2026 um 10:55 +0100 schrieb Philipp Stanner:

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> I think we would all be interested in the actual use-case that's
> sensitive to this kind of latency.

Me too.

Let me use this opportunity to stress that in the future, in DRM,
whenever we have [to accept] a racy "optimization", both commit
messages and code comments must document why it exists and who
requested it with what proof.

Would save us lots of time when those things are discussed >5 years
later.

> 
> However, I wonder if this is even an issue anymore with the lock
> inlined into the fence structure.

Almost no one uses inline-lock so far. So unfortunately, we might
regress old drivers, maybe.

But sounds as if you're in favor of phasing the locklessness out :)


P.

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