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* [PATCH] drm/i915: Retire before attempting to evict from the active lists
@ 2016-12-09 13:42 Chris Wilson
  2016-12-09 15:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Chris Wilson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chris Wilson @ 2016-12-09 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: intel-gfx

Some object retain an extra pin whilst they are active (e.g. contexts).
This excludes them from being considered for eviction unless we idle the
GPU. If before we look at the active list, before we retire we can
hopefully remove a few excess pins and reduce the amount of searching
required..

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c
index a3f7f1ca6f21..722b52ff85c1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_evict.c
@@ -130,7 +130,14 @@ i915_gem_evict_something(struct i915_address_space *vm,
 				    start, end,
 				    flags & PIN_HIGH ? DRM_MM_INSERT_HIGH : 0);
 
-	if (flags & PIN_NONBLOCK)
+	/* Retire before we search the active list. Although we have
+	 * reasonable accuracy in our retirement lists, we may have
+	 * a stray pin (preventing eviction) that can only be resolved by
+	 * retiring.
+	 */
+	if (!(flags & PIN_NONBLOCK))
+		i915_gem_retire_requests(dev_priv);
+	else
 		phases[1] = NULL;
 
 search_again:
-- 
2.11.0

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