[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/4] drm/i915: Invalidate our pages under memory pressure

[Chris Wilson]

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 at google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at 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...
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre