Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: VM eviction only targets address space not physical pages

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:06:36PM -0800, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:08:38PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > During eviction, we are only considering how to free up space within the
> > current address space and not concerned with freeing up physical memory.
> > As such we need only skip nodes that pinned in the current VM and not
> > globally.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ben Widawsky <benjamin.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Can you rename i915_gem_evict_something() or add a comment at the top
> that the function is not used by the shrinker, and is for evicting a VM?
> 
> The comment we currently have in the function doesn't suggest this at
> all.

I'll do a general kerneldoc cleanup for i915_gem_evict.c as a separate
patch.

> Reviewed-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Queued for -next, thanks for the patch.
-Daniel
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c
> > index 525b242ac512..a745966b7e16 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c
> > @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@
> >  static bool
> >  mark_free(struct i915_vma *vma, struct list_head *unwind)
> >  {
> > -	/* Freeing up memory requires no VMAs are pinned */
> > -	if (i915_gem_obj_is_pinned(vma->obj))
> > +	if (vma->pin_count)
> >  		return false;
> >  
> >  	if (WARN_ON(!list_empty(&vma->exec_list)))
> > -- 
> > 1.8.5.3
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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