There's been an important VRAM fix for amdgpu by a valve dev. Will this be coming to Fedora?

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I came across this article that highlighted an important new contribution by a Natalie Vock (pixelcluster), a contracted developer for Valve. She has 6 patches that address VRAM usage, specifically for GPUs with less than 8gb VRAM.

Currently the fix is readily available for Arch and its derivatives. The article states her patches are not in the mainline kernel and users may have to wait for distros to pick it up. So what would be the best option for fedora? wait for it to be merged by Mesa/Mainline Kernel? or can Fedora integrate this on our own?

The developer’s blog post: Fixing AMDGPU's VRAM management for low-end GPUs | pixelcluster's GPU blog (with links to all 6 patches)
Article reporting on this topic: An Open Source Dev Has Put Together a Fix for AMD GPU's VRAM Mismanagement on Linux

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It will be best to wait for the mainline inclusion, otherwise Fedora will have to continue to independently maintain it over time.

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From your links…

The developer warns that things could break if you install the patches. Proceed with caution on general use of production machines.

The six kernel patches are not in the mainline kernel, so getting them requires some extra steps depending on your setup

Unless these patches are accepted in the upstream linux kernel they will not be in Fedora.

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