Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Selectively enable self-reclaim

["Roman Jarosz" <kedgedev@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:15:00 +0100, Michael Reinelt  
<michael@reinelt.co.at> wrote:

>
>
> Pekka Enberg schrieb:
>> Chris Wilson kirjoitti:
>>> Having missed the ENOMEM return via i915_gem_fault(), there are  
>>> probably
>>> other paths that I also missed. By not enabling NORETRY by default  
>>> these
>>> paths can run the shrinker and take memory from the system (but not  
>>> from
>>> our own inactive lists because our shrinker can not run whilst we hold
>>> the struct mutex) and this may allow the system to survive a little
>>> longer
>>> whilst our drivers consume all available memory.
>>>
>>> References:
>>>   OOM killer unexpectedly called with kernel 2.6.32
>>>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14933
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
>>> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
>>> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
>>> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
>>> Cc: stable@kernel.org
>>
>> Roman, can you give this patch a spin?
>
> Applied to 2.6.33-rc5, stress-test under heavy load, no problem so far.  
> Looks fine!

Here it works too, thanks!

Roman