[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Make vm eviction uninterruptible

[Ben Widawsky]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:53:15AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> > Blocking important fixes for a test case is harmful to customers of our
> > software. I won't argue past that. If you won't take it as is, add it to the
> > JIRA task like you said. I'll carry this one around with my dynamic page table
> > allocations since you essentially can't do any real workloads with full PPGTT
> > without this (assuming you have signals). I'd venture to even say existing
> > tests can hit it with full PPGTT turned on.
> 
> A duct-tape bugfix like this would be justified in late -rc, where the
> risk for disabling full ppgtt would probably outweight this hack.
> Earlier I'd opt of simply re-disbaling full ppgtt again if we can't
> come up with a properly understood fix and testcase for it in time.
> 
> But atm full ppgtt is disabled, and we have a task-list with 10
> subtasks on internal JIRA to knock down. Without that I wouldn't
> recommend anyone to try to ship full ppgtt in production, especially
> not our internal customers.
> 
> I've updated the relevant subtask JIRA with details.
> -Daniel

I felt confident when I wrote the original email it was hittable without
full PPGTT. I am not quite certain now. If that is not the case, I agree
with you.

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Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center