Re: Using drm_exec for TTMs BO eviction

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On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 15:53 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 15:40 +0200, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> > Hi, Christian,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 15:25 +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > We recently ran into a problem with deadlocks during eviction and
> > > while back Thomas worked on a patch set which was going into the
> > > direction of solving this.
> > > 
> > > So I simplified it to just the functionality needed to resolve
> > > this
> > > issue at. The resulting patch set is just the initial first step
> > > of
> > > using drm_exec in TTM for locking BOs during eviction.
> > > 
> > > Should a deadlock happen the drm_exec object is now used to
> > > resolve
> > > it and prelock the contended object. This approach solves this
> > > the
> > > ENOMEM issue on contending evictions quite nicely.
> > > 
> > > Please review and comment,
> > > Christian.
> > 
> > Overall it looks sane, but I think it makes sense to review and 
> > land
> > the part of the shrinker series first that touches this eviction
> > path
> > and gets rid of a lot of code that's hard to understand and
> > simplifies
> > the locking a lot. (That part doesn't touch drm_exec), and it has
> > been
> > pending reviews for some time.
> > 
> > I don't think it's correct to bypass that. Then we could work out
> > the
> > drm_exec implications.
> 
> It's
> 
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/131815/
> 
> And in particular patch 7 there brings in the restartable LRU
> functionality and sipmlifies eviction immensely and would make the
> usage of this patchset's rudimentary drm_exec support easier to
> understand and review.
> 
> /Thomas

Hm. I actually think all review comments have been sorted out up to
that patch, so what's missing is a resend of the new version, RB from
Matt and Review / Ack from you, then that part could be partially
merged.

/Thomas



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> > /Thomas
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