[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 22/38] drm/gem/shrinker: Wait before acquiring struct_mutex under oom

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Jun 8 10:04:01 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 11:57:21AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:55:37PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> 
> Shouldn't we only do this as a last resort, i.e. in the oom notifier?
> Commit message is a bit sparse on the motivation here ;-)

i915_gem_shrinker_lock_uninterruptible is last resort.

Movitivation is a bit lacking since there isn't much more we can do to
prevent oom right now.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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