Bug 1143870

Summary:	futex-wait-multiple patchset for testing with Proton fsync
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Alexander Ahjolinna <ahjolinna>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jslaby, mkubecek
Version:	Current
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE Factory
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Description Alexander Ahjolinna 2019-08-01 15:50:47 UTC

Valve just recently released proton 4.11 that features new fsnyc for improved multi-threaded gaming, which requires patches for the kernel to work




proton changelog: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog#411-1
the forum announcement: https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/3158631000006906163/
the kernel patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/30/1399

Comment 1 Michal Kubeček 2019-08-02 08:23:10 UTC

What exactly is the purpose of this report? Are you asking us to include the
patch set in openSUSE kernel?

Looking at the upstream discussion (third link in the initial comment), I can
see that

(1) The patch set has been submitted as "RFC", i.e. rather initial "What do you
    think about this?", not an official submission meant to be merged as is.
(2) There were nontrivial objections to this version.

I would say including the patch set in openSUSE kernel at this point would be
rather premature.

Comment 2 Jiri Slaby 2019-08-09 12:16:54 UTC

(In reply to Michal Kubeček from comment #1)
> I would say including the patch set in openSUSE kernel at this point would be
> rather premature.

Agreed, you need to wait for this to hit upstream. And then, it will hit tumbleweed in a couple of weeks.