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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
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch

  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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