On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:01:45PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 12:18:29PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > Exclude active GPU pages from the purview of the background shrinker > > (kswapd), as these cause uncontrollable GPU stalls. Given that the > > shrinker is rerun until the freelists are satisfied, we should have > > opportunity in subsequent passes to recover the pages once idle. If the > > machine does run out of memory entirely, we have the forced idling in the > > oom-notifier as a means of releasing all the pages we can before an oom > > is prematurely executed. > > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@xxxxxxxxx> > > lgtm, but imo we should move the retire_requests from an earlier patch to > this one. I am not convinced. The retire_requests are there for their own reasons (to cover up cracks elsewhere) and not because we need them for retiring active objects. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
