On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:00:58 +0100 Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote: > Just a spark of an idea to see if this is valid. > > Given extreme memory pressure where we must zap our own caches and > bound buffers or else we fail to allocate a structure, we have a > choice of propagating that interrupt back to userspace or to quietly > suppress it in the hope of making the allocation. > i915_gem_shrink_all() is a likely candidate for that last ditch > effort that currently fails to propagate the interruption back... What's the BKM for making the memory all go bye-bye (ie. how to test this patch a bit)? -- Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center
