From: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@xxxxxxx> GFP_TRANSHUGE tries very hard to allocate huge pages, which can result in long delays with high memory pressure. I have observed firefox freezing for up to around a minute due to this while restic was taking a full system backup. Since we don't really need huge pages, use GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_NORETRY instead, in order to fail quickly when there are no huge pages available. Set __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as well, in order for huge pages to be freed up in the background if necessary. With these changes, I'm no longer seeing freezes during a restic backup. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 11 ++++++++--- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c index 2ce91272b111..6794f15461d9 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c @@ -914,7 +914,8 @@ static int ttm_get_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned npages, int flags, while (npages >= HPAGE_PMD_NR) { gfp_t huge_flags = gfp_flags; - huge_flags |= GFP_TRANSHUGE; + huge_flags |= GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_NORETRY | + __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM; huge_flags &= ~__GFP_MOVABLE; huge_flags &= ~__GFP_COMP; p = alloc_pages(huge_flags, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER); @@ -1033,11 +1034,15 @@ int ttm_page_alloc_init(struct ttm_mem_global *glob, unsigned max_pages) GFP_USER | GFP_DMA32, "uc dma", 0); ttm_page_pool_init_locked(&_manager->wc_pool_huge, - GFP_TRANSHUGE & ~(__GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP), + (GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_NORETRY | + __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) & + ~(__GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP), "wc huge", order); ttm_page_pool_init_locked(&_manager->uc_pool_huge, - GFP_TRANSHUGE & ~(__GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP) + (GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_NORETRY | + __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) & + ~(__GFP_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP) , "uc huge", order); _manager->options.max_size = max_pages; diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c index 291b04213ec5..5a551158c289 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc_dma.c @@ -910,7 +910,8 @@ static gfp_t ttm_dma_pool_gfp_flags(struct ttm_dma_tt *ttm_dma, bool huge) gfp_flags |= __GFP_ZERO; if (huge) { - gfp_flags |= GFP_TRANSHUGE; + gfp_flags |= GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT | __GFP_NORETRY | + __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM; gfp_flags &= ~__GFP_MOVABLE; gfp_flags &= ~__GFP_COMP; } -- 2.17.0 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel