From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
To: Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: ttm: merge ttm_backend & ttm_tt, introduce ttm dma allocator V5
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:06:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC13C92.5060105@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH3drwarw4MqsDB8-KoaH=o-Q0iwOkOFukB25NeLsJcyeusiUQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/14/2011 05:02 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Hellstrom<thellstrom@vmware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/11/2011 11:47 PM, j.glisse@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> So attached is updated serie of patch with fixes for swaping issue
>>> that also impacted memory accounting.
>>>
>> Jerome,
>> Out of interest, what was the swapping issue?
>>
>> /Thomas
>>
>>
>>
> The page list was NULL and some access ended up freaking the kernel
> and oom kicked in for some reason i still don't understand. Bottom
> line things were going south in a split second leaving me with no log
> or access, i thought it was accounting not working as it was what i
> tested at the time. I should have tested accouting without the
> patchset
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome
>
Still, I think you have a point in the fact that *when* finally the OOM
killer kicks in,
it probably doesn't have a way to associate user-space created bos with
processes
and kill the right process.
/Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-14 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-11 22:47 ttm: merge ttm_backend & ttm_tt, introduce ttm dma allocator V5 j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 01/14] swiotlb: Expose swiotlb_nr_tlb function to modules j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 02/14] drm/ttm: remove userspace backed ttm object support j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 03/14] drm/ttm: remove split btw highmen and lowmem page j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 04/14] drm/ttm: remove unused backend flags field j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 05/14] drm/ttm: use ttm put pages function to properly restore cache attribute j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 06/14] drm/ttm: test for dma_address array allocation failure j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 07/14] drm/ttm: page allocation use page array instead of list j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 08/14] drm/ttm: merge ttm_backend and ttm_tt V5 j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 09/14] drm/ttm: introduce callback for ttm_tt populate & unpopulate V4 j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 10/14] drm/ttm: provide dma aware ttm page pool code V8 j.glisse
2011-11-16 15:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-16 16:04 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 11/14] drm/radeon/kms: enable the ttm dma pool if swiotlb is on V3 j.glisse
2011-11-16 15:46 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-16 16:05 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 12/14] drm/nouveau: enable the ttm dma pool when swiotlb is active V3 j.glisse
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 13/14] drm/ttm: isolate dma data from ttm_tt V3 j.glisse
2011-11-15 21:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-15 21:47 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-11-16 0:35 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-11-16 17:21 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-11 22:47 ` [PATCH 14/14] drm/ttm: simplify memory accounting for ttm user j.glisse
2011-11-14 14:49 ` ttm: merge ttm_backend & ttm_tt, introduce ttm dma allocator V5 Thomas Hellstrom
2011-11-14 16:02 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-11-14 16:06 ` Thomas Hellstrom [this message]
2011-11-14 18:54 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-11-14 19:25 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2011-11-16 15:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-16 15:31 ` Jerome Glisse
2011-11-16 15:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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