[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Wait for the GPU whilst shrinking, if truly desperate.

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Fri Apr 30 00:28:19 CEST 2010


On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:10:35 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> By idling the GPU and discarding everything we can when under extreme
> memory pressure, the number of OOM-killer events is dramatically
> reduced. For instance, this makes it possible to run
> firefox-planet-gnome.trace again on my swapless 512MiB i915.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

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