This patch-set is a prerequisite for a standalone TTM shrinker and for exhaustive TTM eviction using sleeping dma_resv locks, which is the motivation it. Currently when unlocking the TTM lru list lock, iteration needs to be restarted from the beginning, rather from the next LRU list node. This can potentially be a big problem, because if eviction or shrinking fails for whatever reason after unlock, restarting is likely to cause the same failure over and over again. There are various schemes to be able to continue the list iteration from where we left off. One such scheme used by the GEM LRU list traversal is to pull items already considered off the LRU list and reinsert them when iteration is done. This has the drawback that concurrent list iteration doesn't see the complete list (which is bad for exhaustive eviction) and also doesn't lend itself well to bulk-move sublists since these will be split in the process where items from those lists are temporarily pulled from the list and moved to the list tail. The approach taken here is that list iterators insert themselves into the list next position using a special list node. Iteration is then using that list node as starting point when restarting. Concurrent iterators just skip over the special list nodes. This is implemented in patch 1 and 2. For bulk move sublist the approach is the same, but when a bulk move sublist is moved to the tail, the iterator is also moved, causing us to skip parts of the list. That is undesirable. Patch 3 deals with that, and when iterator detects it is traversing a sublist, it inserts a second restarting point just after the sublist and if the sublist is moved to the tail, it just uses the second restarting point instead. This is implemented in patch 3. The restartable property is used in patch 4 to restart swapout if needed, but the main purpose is this paves the way for shrinker- and exhaustive eviction. Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Cc: <dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thomas Hellström (4): drm/ttm: Allow TTM LRU list nodes of different types drm/ttm: Use LRU hitches drm/ttm: Consider hitch moves within bulk sublist moves drm/ttm: Allow continued swapout after -ENOSPC falure drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_device.c | 33 +++-- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.c | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ include/drm/ttm/ttm_resource.h | 91 +++++++++++-- 4 files changed, 267 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-) -- 2.43.0
