[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: Allow fence allocations to fail

[Joonas Lahtinen]

On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 18:06 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> If a fence allocation fails in a blocking context, we will sleep on the
> fence as a last resort. We can therefore allow ourselves to fail and
> sleep on the fence instead of triggering a system-wide oom. This allows
> us to throttle malicious clients that are consuming lots of system
> resources by capping the amount of memory used by fences.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>

Claim checks out,

Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>

Regards, Joonas
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Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation