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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 08:56:08AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> 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...

Those 5 didn't show up till just today ;-)
-Daniel
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