From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] drm/i915: Invalidate our pages under memory pressure
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:12:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520081222.GF8790@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520075608.GJ11754@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com>
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 08:56:08AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:53:28AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 01:23:06PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > Try to flush out dirty pages into the swapcache (and from there into the
> > > swapfile) when under memory pressure and forced to drop GEM objects from
> > > memory. In effect, this should just allow us to discard unused pages for
> > > memory reclaim and to start writeback earlier.
> > >
> > > v2: Hugh Dickins warned that explicitly starting writeback from
> > > shrink_slab was prone to deadlocks within shmemfs.
> > >
> > > Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> >
> > Merged all four patches. Can you please go through bugzilla and poke all
> > relevant patches for retesting? I think I've made a sufficient fool of
> > myself yesterday to not attempt this ;-)
>
> 4 patches? The series tested had 5...
Those 5 didn't show up till just today ;-)
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-20 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-25 13:23 [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915: Translate ENOSPC from shmem_get_page() to ENOMEM Chris Wilson
2014-03-25 13:23 ` [PATCH 2/4] drm/i915: Include bound and active pages in the count of shrinkable objects Chris Wilson
2014-05-19 16:04 ` Barbalho, Rafael
2014-03-25 13:23 ` [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915: Refactor common lock handling between shrinker count/scan Chris Wilson
2014-05-19 16:05 ` Barbalho, Rafael
2014-03-25 13:23 ` [PATCH 4/4] drm/i915: Invalidate our pages under memory pressure Chris Wilson
2014-04-11 8:30 ` Chris Wilson
2014-04-11 8:38 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-04-11 8:46 ` Chris Wilson
2014-04-16 17:13 ` Robert Beckett
2014-04-17 16:34 ` Jani Nikula
2014-04-22 19:06 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-04-22 23:23 ` Robert Beckett
2014-05-19 16:07 ` Barbalho, Rafael
2014-05-20 7:53 ` Daniel Vetter
2014-05-20 7:56 ` Chris Wilson
2014-05-20 8:12 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2014-05-19 16:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] drm/i915: Translate ENOSPC from shmem_get_page() to ENOMEM Barbalho, Rafael
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