[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Always pin contexts into the high GGTT

[Joonas Lahtinen]

On pe, 2017-02-10 at 10:14 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Now that we have fast top-down insertion into the drm_mm, we can use it
> for frequent runtime operations like insertion of the context object,
> whereas before we limited it to the one-off insertion of the pinned
> kernel context. Keeping the active context objects out of the mappable
> region of the global GTT (except under memory pressure) improves our
> ability to allocate mappable aperture region without triggering a GPU
> stall.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>

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

Regards, Joonas
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Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation